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On the Estimated Age-Distribution of the Indian Population, as Recorded at the Census of 1911, and the Estimated Rates of Mortality, Deduced from a Comparison of the Census Returns for 1901 and 1911

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

Extract

The age-distribution, and the rates of mortality, of the male and female population, recorded by the General Census for India, have been investigated by Mr. G. F. Hardy, in connection with the separate Censuses of 1881,1891 and 1901. The methods adopted in his investigations, and the resulting tabular figures. are set out in Mr. Hardy's Reports to the Indian Government on these several Censuses, and these are summarized, as regards the 1881 Census, in a Paper submitted by him to the Institute, and published in Vol. XXV of the Journal, p. 217 et seq.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1913

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References

page 323 note * See, also, an interesting reference to this method in Professor Edgeworth's Presidential Address to the Royal Statistical Society ( Journal, 1913, pp. 185, 193)Google Scholar.

page 395 note * The corrected formula is stated on p. 391 (Appendix C) of Mr. Ackland's paper.