Table 4.
Life Expectancy in Years (and standard errors) in Different Health States, Estimated Using Retrospectively Inferred and Concurrent Health Status Information: Non-Hispanic White Males and Females, 1999–2001
| Age | Life Expectancy in Each Health State |
Difference in Years |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excellent/Very Good |
Good |
Fair/Poor |
Excellent/Very Good | Good | Fair/Poor | ||||
| Concurrent | Retrospective | Concurrent | Retrospective | Concurrent | Retrospective | ||||
| Male | |||||||||
| 70 | 5.94 (0.19) | 6.05 (0.21) | 4.37 (0.17) | 4.11 (0.17) | 3.04 (0.18) | 3.14 (0.17) | –0.11* | 0.25* | –0.09* |
| 75 | 4.26 (0.15) | 4.23 (0.17) | 3.34 (0.14) | 3.18 (0.14) | 2.54 (0.15) | 2.64 (0.14) | 0.02 | 0.17* | –0.10* |
| 80 | 2.94 (0.14) | 2.87 (0.15) | 2.47 (0.12) | 2.37 (0.12) | 2.06 (0.13) | 2.14 (0.12) | 0.07 | 0.10 | –0.09* |
| 85 | 1.97 (0.14) | 1.90 (0.15) | 1.77 (0.11) | 1.72 (0.11) | 1.62 (0.12) | 1.70 (0.11) | 0.06 | 0.04 | –0.08* |
| 90 | 1.28 (0.13) | 1.25 (0.14) | 1.23 (0.10) | 1.23 (0.10) | 1.26 (0.12) | 1.32 (0.11) | 0.03 | 0.00 | –0.06 |
| Female | |||||||||
| 70 | 6.64 (0.15) | 6.87 (0.17) | 5.57 (0.16) | 5.64 (0.16) | 4.53 (0.22) | 4.25 (0.18) | –0.23* | –0.07 | 0.28* |
| 75 | 4.89 (0.12) | 4.90 (0.14) | 4.37 (0.13) | 4.45 (0.13) | 3.88 (0.18) | 3.67 (0.15) | –0.01 | –0.08 | 0.21* |
| 80 | 3.49 (0.13) | 3.37 (0.13) | 3.31 (0.12) | 3.38 (0.12) | 3.22 (0.17) | 3.05 (0.14) | 0.12* | –0.07* | 0.17* |
| 85 | 2.41 (0.13) | 2.25 (0.14) | 2.42 (0.12) | 2.48 (0.12) | 2.59 (0.16) | 2.46 (0.13) | 0.16* | –0.05 | 0.13* |
| 90 | 1.61 (0.13) | 1.47 (0.13) | 1.72 (0.12) | 1.77 (0.12) | 2.04 (0.16) | 1.93 (0.14) | 0.14* | –0.04 | 0.11* |
Notes: Based on transition probabilities for those entering sample in 1998 and 1999 and interviewed in 1999, 2000, and 2001 in the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey.
*
p < .05