Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses the outlook for U.S. government statistics after budget costs and restraints, statistics of income, outlook for linked studies among the different agencies, plans for a 1987 National Medical Expenditures Survey, and the use of government statistics in marketing studies.

Description: This annual survey of long-term lapsation prepared by the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association examines the experience of ordinary insurance in the U.S. between 1985 and 1986 policy anniversaries.

Description: Description of methods for extracting and reformatting the existing mortality tables using R. Methods and formats for storage are discussed in the second article. Intent is to generate discussion regarding the format of our stored mortality tables. Value is in the demonstration of task automation in R and in the reduction of duplicate work across companies related to reformatting tables.

Description: The Group Life Insurance Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries has completed the 2005 Group Term Life Waiver Reserve Table Report. There were several compelling reasons to develop a new experience study and table, not the least of which was that 35 years is a long interval for any study. This is the excel Calculation Spreadsheet for Reserve Factors for Group Term Waiver of Premium [NAIC version]. Please see the SOA website for the Report of the Group Life Experience Committee for March 2006.

Description: This paper traces the background of the surgeon general's 1979 report on smoking, highlights its principle conclusions with respect to mortality, and summarizes its findings regarding socioeconomic and demographic differences between smokers and nonsmokers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: This is a list of members on the Mortality and Morbidity Experience Studies Committees.

Description: The presenters will highlight differences in mortality that result from socioeconomic issues. Topics will include the differences in cause-specific mortality among different socioeconomic classes, trends in these gaps over time, and recommendations for reducing inequalities in life expectancy in the future.

Description: Experience report for life insurance policies with face amounts of $1 million or higher.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Individual Disability Experience Committee has completed their study of claim termination experience for the period 2006-2014 and has produced a report that provide a practical set of changes to the claim termination rates (CTRs) of the 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table to reflect key industry individual disability income (IDI) claim experience trends over this time period. The goal was to have the resulting 2006-2014 IDIET in a workable format to facilitate its implementation.

Description: This is a study to perform a mortality analysis of the 1898-1902 birth cohort.