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This data frame contains information about 9853 French semi-supercentenarian, part of the International Database on Longevity (IDL). All supercentenarian records were validated, but only a random sample of semi-supercentenarians were validated. Lifetimes are interval truncated;only people above 110 born after 1978 and people above 105 born after 1987 are included.

Usage

french

Format

A data frame with 9853 rows and 6 variables:

ndays

survival time (in days)

bdate

birth date (Date)

ddate

death date (Date) if the person is alive at the end of the sampling

ltrunc

minimum age (in days); the maximum of 38350 days (approximately 105 years) or the number of days reached on January 1st 1978 (supercentenarian) or 1987 (semisupercentenarian)

rtrunc

maximum age (in days) an individual could have reached by the end of 2017

gender

factor indicating gender of individual, either female or male

References

International Database on Longevity