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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Econ Ageing. 2015 Dec 1;6:133–148. doi: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2015.08.001

Table 14.

Fit: probability of initial receipt of DI at each age and cumulative over ages, actual and predicted

Age Probability of DI
over two years*
Cumulative from
age 50**
Cumulative from
age 53**
predicted actual predicted actual predicted actual
50 0.012 0.015 0.012 0.015
51 0.013 0.004 0.018 0.017
52 0.013 0.007 0.025 0.021
53 0.013 0.012 0.031 0.027 0.013 0.012
54 0.013 0.013 0.037 0.033 0.019 0.018
55 0.013 0.013 0.044 0.039 0.026 0.025
56 0.014 0.015 0.051 0.047 0.033 0.032
57 0.015 0.013 0.058 0.054 0.040 0.039
58 0.015 0.015 0.066 0.061 0.048 0.047
59 0.016 0.020 0.074 0.071 0.055 0.056
60 0.017 0.017 0.082 0.079 0.064 0.065
61 0.016 0.019 0.091 0.089 0.072 0.074
62 0.016 0.013 0.098 0.095 0.080 0.080
*

The probability shown is the probability that a person will begin to receive DI over the next two years.

**

Calculation of the cumulative assumes that the probability of DI receipt over a one year peiod is half that of the two-year probability