Goldstein S
Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
Soc Biol. 1996 Spring-Summer;43(1-2):72-97.
From information on mortality of Jews obtained from individual death certificates and population data from surveys of the Jewish population undertaken in 1963 and 1987, age specific death rates and life expectancy of the Jewish population of Rhode Island are compared with those of the total white population for 1963 and 1987 to assess changing differentials. The Jewish mortality experience continues to differ from that of the larger population even while both groups have experienced noticeable improvements. For males, the age standardized rates have widened in favor of Jews as have the life expectancies at birth and the percentage surviving to old age. By contrast, for females, the standardized death rate has widened considerably in favor of whites, while life expectancy has improved almost identically for both groups and therefore remained about equal, as it was in 1963. Reasons for these patterns are explored through attention to differences between Jews and the general white population in death rates at particular stages of the life cycle. Jews tend to be more advantaged at all but the most advanced ages, age groups in which proportionally more of the Jewish population and Jewish deaths are concentrated.
从1963年和1987年对犹太人口进行调查获得的个人死亡证明中的犹太人口死亡率信息以及人口数据来看，罗德岛犹太人口的年龄别死亡率和预期寿命与1963年和1987年白人总人口的相应数据进行了比较，以评估变化中的差异。即使两个群体都有明显改善，犹太人群体的死亡情况仍与更大规模人口的情况有所不同。对于男性而言，年龄标准化率对犹太人更为有利，出生时的预期寿命以及活到老年的百分比也是如此。相比之下，对于女性来说，标准化死亡率对白人更为有利，而两个群体的预期寿命几乎相同，因此与1963年一样仍大致相等。通过关注犹太人与一般白人人口在生命周期特定阶段的死亡率差异来探究这些模式的原因。除了最高龄阶段外，犹太人在其他各年龄段往往更具优势，在这些高龄阶段，犹太人口和犹太死亡人数的比例相对更为集中。
