Lauderdale Diane S, Kestenbaum Bert
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60337, USA.
Demography. 2002 Aug;39(3):529-40. doi: 10.1353/dem.2002.0028.
We present sex- and age-specific death probabilities for the elderly of six Asian American subgroups--Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese--based on data from social Security Administration files. We determined ethnicity by combining race, place of birth, surname, and given name. The data source and ethnic determination are the same for deaths and the population at risk, avoiding the problem of noncomparability present when data for the numerator come from vital records and data for the denominator come from census records. We found that death rates for elderly Asian Americans are lower than those for whites, and that socioeconomic differences between subgroups do not translate into like differences in mortality.
我们基于社会保障管理局档案中的数据，给出了六个亚裔美国人亚群体（华裔、菲律宾裔、印度裔、日裔、韩裔和越南裔）老年人按性别和年龄划分的死亡概率。我们通过结合种族、出生地、姓氏和名字来确定种族。死亡数据和处于危险中的人群的数据来源及种族确定方式相同，避免了分子数据来自生命记录而分母数据来自人口普查记录时出现的不可比性问题。我们发现，亚裔美国老年人的死亡率低于白人，且亚群体之间的社会经济差异并未转化为类似的死亡率差异。
