Table 8:
Age and Cause of Death: Observed and Simulated Data
| Sample | Percent died |
Age of death distribution (percentile) | Cause of death | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | 10th | 25th | 50th | 75th | 90th | CVD | Cancer | Other | ||
| Deaths observed through 1996 (right-censored; estimation sample) | ||||||||||
| Observed | 87.8 | 72.6 | 58 | 66 | 74 | 80 | 85 | 42.6 | 26.3 | 31.6 |
| Simulated | 89.0 | 72.3 | 58 | 66 | 73 | 79 | 85 | 43.9 | 26.2 | 30.0 |
| Deaths observed through 2009 | ||||||||||
| Observed | 100.0 | 74.4 | 59 | 68 | 76 | 82 | 88 | |||
| Simulated | 100.0 | 74.0 | 59 | 67 | 75 | 82 | 88 | |||
Note: Observations are right-censored if the individual (observed or simulated) has not died through 1996 (two years after exam 23).