This database contains data downloaded from supercentenarian.org, including third first waves, new data provided by ONS for semisupercentenarian, data for Switzerland and Italy previously available for download and removed for confidentiality. Data from Japan and from people aged less than 110 from the USA are excluded because they are of dubious quality. For the USA, the semisupercentenarian records are validated, but this is only a fraction of a cohort whose size is unknown and they are not representative of the whole population. The birth and death dates of the USA people are unknown (only years are given, so the largest plausible range is recorded given the survival in years).
Format
A data frame with 17721 rows and 10 variables:
- country
factor, one of
CH(Switzerland),OS(Austria),BE(Belgium),QC(Quebec),DE(Germany),DN(Denmark),ES(Spain),FI(Finland),FR(France),NO(Norway),SV(Sweden),EW(England and Wales),IT(Italy) andUS(United States of America)- ndays
integer; survival (in days)
- ageyear
integer; floor of maximum age (in years) reached at death
- gender
factor;
maleorfemale- bdate
Date; birth date (except for US)
- ddate
Date; death date (except for US)
- ltrunc1
integer; lower truncation limit (in days); the minimum number of days someone would have survived to be included in the sampling frame (first interval)
- rtrunc1
integer; upper truncation limit (in days); the maximum number of days someone would have survived to be included in the sampling frame (first interval)
- ltrunc2
integer; lower truncation limit (in days); the minimum number of days someone would have survived to be included in the sampling frame (second interval) if applicable,
NAotherwise- rtrunc2
integer; upper truncation limit (in days); the maximum number of days someone would have survived to be included in the sampling frame (second interval) if applicable,
NAotherwise
Details
Only dead individuals are included, so the records are truncated. For countries with semisupercentenarians and with different collection period for semisupercentenarians (105-109) and supercentenarians (110+), there are some configurations leading to double interval truncation, in which case data are defined in \([\code{ltrunc1}, \code{rtrunc1}] \cup [\code{ltrunc2},\code{rtrunc2}]\).