Table 4.

Annual Relative Change Index of TLE at selected age intervals by sex in between different decades (1931–40 to 2001–08)

	1931–40∣ 1941–50	1941–50∣ 1951–60	1951–60∣ 1961–70	1961–70∣ 1971–80	*1971–80∣ 1981–90	*1981–90∣ 1991–00	*1991–00∣ 2001–08
Male
0–80	1.05	1.18	2.98	3.28	2.21	1.76	1.36
0–15	1.62	1.78	3.52	5.14	5.89	7.30	3.68
15–40	1.86	1.96	4.10	8.38	1.33	1.60	0.73
40–60	1.86	1.90	5.88	3.09	0.57	1.71	1.31
60–80	0.76	0.81	2.65	0.66	1.22	−0.06	1.12
Female
0–80	1.24	1.43	3.10	3.40	4.52	2.47	2.16
0–15	1.86	2.17	2.73	3.71	7.25	7.52	2.42
15–40	1.99	2.18	6.14	8.77	3.94	2.01	2.24
40–60	1.52	1.99	5.40	5.53	4.12	0.88	3.46
60–80	0.89	0.92	2.56	0.64	3.01	0.70	1.83

Source: Calculated from Namboodiri (18); Coale, Demeny, and Vaughan (22); Bhat (23); SRS various years.

^*The findings from 1971 onward have been taken from ref. 17.