Corrigendum to: Trends in health expectancies among the oldest old in Sweden, 1992–2011

European Journal of Public Health, 2016; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckw066

Erratum

In the original publication of the article, the authors mistakenly included some faulty information: In Table 3 the estimates for mortality and disability effects were incorrect. The correct estimates are provided in the table below, together with a revised version of the corresponding results section on page 1072 of the article. These details have been corrected only in this corrigendum to preserve the published version of record.

Table 3.

T-test for change between survey years in years of remaining life expectancy with and without severe disability, with and without mild disability, and with and without mobility problems. Decomposition of mortality effect and disability/mobility effect for the change in life expectancy without disability/mobility problems

		Men					Women
		SWEOLD				SHARE	SWEOLD				SHARE
LE with		1992– 2002	1992– 2004	1992– 2011	2004– 2011	2004– 2011	1992– 2002	1992– 2004	1992– 2011	2004– 2011	2004– 2011
Severe disability	With problems	0.46*	0.39	0.62*	0.23	0.47	0.09	−0.21	−0.49	−0.27	−0.84*
	Without problems	0.19	0.74**	1.08**	0.33	0.09	0.09	0.96**	1.62**	0.66*	1.23**
	Mortality effect	0.09	0.80	1.22	0.39	0.42	0.12	0.41	0.65	0.24	0.26
	Disability effect	−0.11	−0.06	0.15	−0.06	−0.33	−0.03	0.55	0.97	0.43	0.98
Mild disability	With problems	0.01	0.19	0.44	0.25	0.45	−0.14	−0.30	0.22	0.52	−0.65
	Without problems	0.64*	0.95**	1.26**	0.31	0.11	0.31	1.05**	0.92**	−0.13	1.04**
	Mortality effect	0.36	0.58	0.90	0.30	0.42	0.12	0.38	0.54	0.20	0.25
	Disability effect	0.27	0.36	0.34	0.00	−0.31	0.20	0.67	0.37	−0.33	0.79
Mobility problems	With problems	1.15**	0.96**	1.22**	0.27	0.25	1.33**	1.28**	1.36**	0.25	−0.12
	Without problems	−0.49	0.18	0.47	0.29	0.31	−1.15**	−0.54	−0.23	0.31	0.51*
	Mortality effect	0.31	0.52	0.82	0.27	0.41	0.07	0.27	0.40	0.13	0.23
	Disability effect	−0.81	−0.35	−0.35	0.02	−0.10	−1.23	−0.81	−0.63	0.18	0.28

Abbreviations: LE, life expectancy; SHARE, The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe; SWEOLD, The Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old. Statistically significant p<.10*, p<.05**.

Decomposition of observed trends

The increase in life expectancy without health problems was predominantly driven by changes in mortality. Between 1992 and 2011, the increase of years without severe disability, and without mild disability, was mainly driven by mortality effects for men. For women disability effect was greater for sever disability while mortality effect had a larger impact on mild disability. For life expectancy without mobility problems, the mortality effect had a greater impact in both sexes.

Between 2004 and 2011, the increase of years without severe disability was mostly driven by disability effects for women, for men it was mortality that had a greater impact. Years without mild disability were mainly driven by mortality effects for men, and disability effect for women. For years without mobility problems, the mobility effect had a greater impact for women.