Description: Recent trends in mortality suggest that future gains in life expectancy will occur after age 80. This fact stresses the need and the importance to obtain precise measures of mortality at the highest ages, which are always subject to uncertainty due to misreporting of age at death.

Description: Analyse the increase in the number of centenarians in Quebec (Canada) across birth cohorts (1871 to 1901). Outline some of the demographic mechanisms involved.

Description: Analyse the increase in the number of centenarians in Quebec (Canada) across birth cohorts (1871 to 1901). Outline some of the demographic mechanisms involved.

Description: Paper focuses on the situation in Canada. First examined are the factors behind rising health-care costs resulting form two phenomena:changing cohort size and lower mortality among the elderly. Second examined are the are effects of lower than forecast mortality on pay-as-you-go systems. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: Discussion of Session 5B: Papers presented: Data Validation and Measurement of Cohort Mortality among Centenarians in Quebec and Physical and Socioeconomic Characteristics at a Young Age as Predictors of Survival

Description: The abstract for the paper What if Mortality was to Diminish Much More than Forecasted? Implications for Financing Social Security.

Description: Tables used in the Dealing with Problems in Data Quality for the Measurement of Mortality at Advanced Ages in Canada paper.

Description: This paper deals with the level and age trajectory of mortality at advanced ages in Canada, based on population data.

Description: Recent trends in mortality suggest that future gains in life expectancy will occur after age 80. This fact stresses the need and the importance to obtain precise measures of mortality at the highest ages, which are always subject to uncertainty due to misreporting of age at death.