caa a22 4500 477055788 CHVBK 20180405111346.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960501xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2061872 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.2307/2061872 African-american mortality at older ages: Results of a matching study [Elektronische Daten] [Samuel Preston, Irma Elo, Ira Rosenwaike, Mark Hill] In this paper we investigate the quality of age reporting on death certificates of elderly African-Americans. We link a sample of death certificates of persons age 65+ in 1985 to records for the same individuals in U.S. censuses of 1900, 1910, and 1920 and to records of the Social Security Administration. The ages at death reported on death certificates are too young on average. Errors are greater for women than for men. Despite systematic underreporting of age at death, too many deaths are registered at ages 95+. This excess reflects an age distribution of deaths that declines steeply with age, so that the base for upward transfers into an age category is much larger than the base for transfers downward and out. When corrected ages at death are used to estimate age-specific death rates, African-American mortality rates increase substantially above age 85 and the racial "crossover” in mortality disappears. Uncertainty about white rates at ages 95+, however, prevents a decisive racial comparison at the very oldest ages. Population Association of America, 1996 Preston Samuel Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 19104-6298, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut Elo Irma Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 19104-6298, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut Rosenwaike Ira Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 19104-6298, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut Hill Mark Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 19104-6298, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut Demography Springer-Verlag 33/2(1996-05-01), 193-209 0070-3370 33:2<193 1996 33 13524 https://doi.org/10.2307/2061872 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2061872 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Preston Samuel Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 19104-6298, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Elo Irma Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 19104-6298, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rosenwaike Ira Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 19104-6298, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hill Mark Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, 19104-6298, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Demography Springer-Verlag 33/2(1996-05-01), 193-209 0070-3370 33:2<193 1996 33 13524 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer