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This data frame contains information about 3836 Italians individually validated survival lifetimes times in days of all persons in Italy who were at least 105 years old at some point in the period from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2015. Observations are left-truncated and right-censored. These data are not publicly available, but can be purchased from the Italian National Institute of Statistics by registering at the Contact Center and mentioning the Semi-supercentenarian Survey and Marco Marsili as contact person.

Usage

italian

Format

A data frame with 3836 rows and 6 variables:

ndays

survival time (in days)

bdate

birth date (Date)

ddate

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

ltrunc

minimum age (in days); the maximum of 38351 days (approximately 105 years) or the number of days reached in 2009

event

integer indicating the censoring pattern; 0 for right-censored records, 1 for fully observed

gender

factor indicating gender of individual, either female or male

References

Istituto Nazionale di Statistica