Estimated Life Tables for the United States, 1850–1910

Abstract

This article presents a series of abridged life tables derived from earlier work by the author and Samuel H. Preston.... These tables provide a superior picture of the mortality situation in the United States from 1850 to 1910. In addition these tables can be of assistance in the following ways: estimating own-children fertility and census-survival migration calculating probabilities for finding certain family structures in the census and making estimates of working life. (EXCERPT)