In the originally published version of this manuscript, the first note had been set as the second line of text in the Introduction: “Here, we are referring to period life expectancy rather than cohort life expectancy. Period life expectancy is the number of years a newborn might be expected to live, on average, assuming the current death rates do not change. It does not consider future changes in mortality rates. Period life expectancies are used to compare trends over time, and the UK and other national life tables are period life tables for this reason.”
In box 2, the first sentence in the second paragraph, “Record migration indicators on death certificates e.g. country of birth” has been changed to “Record clearer indicators of migration indicators on death certificates e.g. country of birth instead of place of birth.”
In the fourth sentence after Box 2, “... and relies on the 10-yearly census to link to death records.” was changed to ““... and relies on the ethnicity data from 10-yearly census to link to death records.”
Contributor Information
Lucinda Hiam, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK.
Claire X Zhang, Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, NW1 2DA, UK.
Rachel Burns, Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, NW1 2DA, UK.
Frances Darlington-Pollock, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, L69 3GP, UK.
Matthew Wallace, Demography Unit, Sociology Department, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, UK.
Martin McKee, Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, WC1H 9SH, UK.