NORWEGIAN POPULATION MORTALITY 1993

(used in examples 1.5, 3.4, and 3.11, 4.12, and 5.3)

 

Background:

Mortality for the general Norwegian population for the year 1993 as reported by Statistics Norway. In the book these population rates are used in connection with the data on mortality for patients with hip replacement.

 

Coding:

age:  age in years

males:  population mortality for males per 1000

females: population mortality for females per 1000