Abstract
Life expectancy at birth has increased substantially at the global scale over recent decades, but the improvements have not been experienced equally across all countries - in large part reflecting changes in economic and social situations. To identify the spatial variations in life expectancy at birth across a large number of countries over a 33-year period, this paper provides an expository account of a developing modelling methodology for the analysis of spatio-temporal trajectories. It identifies broad patterns of change and simultaneously examines between- and within-country variation to assess the degree to which patterns of life expectancy are becoming more or less similar at national and sub-national scales.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 73 - 90 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie |
Volume | 101 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- Longitudinal analysis
- life expectancy at birth
- latent group-base trajectory modelling
- random effect modelling
- DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES
- MIXTURE-MODELS
- SAS PROCEDURE
- CAREERS
- HEALTH
- TIME