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Title: The Construction of Life Tables for the American Indian Population at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: This chapter constructs new life tables for the American Indian population in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, pushing back the availability of age-specific mortality and life expectancy estimates for the American Indian population nearly half a century. The life tables are constructed using indirect census-based estimation methods. Infant and child mortality rates are estimated from the total number of living children each woman has given birth to and the total number of those children still living reported in the 1900 and 1910 censuses. Adult mortality rates are inferred from the infant and child mortality estimates using model life tables. Adult mortality rates are also estimated by applying the two-census method of Preston and Bennett to the 1900 to 1910 intercensal period. the demographic evidence indicates that the American Indian population suffered from substantial mortality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Life expectancy at birth was probably about 40 years, substantially lower than the white population and even lower than the black population.

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Authors: Hacker, J.David; Haines, Michael R.

Editors: Axelsson, Per; Skld, Peter

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Volume Title: Indigenous Populations and Demography: The Complex Relation Between Identity and Statistics

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Publisher Location: New York, Oxford

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Methodology and Data Collection, Race and Ethnicity

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