Description: Mortality in the U.S. states at ages 80 and older and over years 1959–2011 analyzed and compared with mortality levels in 13 high-longevity countries.

Description: This presentation was made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries and it highlights the following issues: What are the retirement needs of a population?, what are suitable methods of providing social insurance, private pensions,and savings?, what are the political, economic, and sociological implications of various solutions?, and what perspective on this problem does Canadian experience provide.

Description: This article is a review and analysis of “Mankind at the Turning Point: the Second Report to the Club of Rome,” by Mihajlo Mesarovi and Eduard Pestel, published in 1974. The author notes that this work was initiated by the Club of Rome with the specific objective of meeting the more serious criticisms leveled at the original study, the Forrester-Meadows Limits to Growth report. The article discusses world growth and population, and the conclusions reached by the authors of the report.

Description: Book review on Standards for Discussion and Presentation of Errors in Survey and Census Data by the American Statistical Association, Washington, D.C., 1975. The material will be of interest to actuaries and of help in preparing their own study reports. The guidelines discuss some relatively simple means of presenting error estimates for published data.

Description: This paper describes the process and methodology undertaken for the 1971 Canadian census and the life tables and geocoding which are created from the census.

Description: We highlight a new approach leveraging predictive analytics to identify high risk and rising risk opioid users for more effective screening and follow-up care.

Description: This is an update of a report published originally in June 20211 comparing total U.S. population mortality to baseline expectations by age and sex. The report now includes U.S. population numbers through August 17, 2022, so the years 2020 and 2021 are now mostly complete.

Description: This paper presents how to compute how fast a country is growing. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991 VOL.2.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 6 provides a book review of The Methods and Materials of Demography published by the Bureau of Census.

Description: This article provides a reasonable historical perspective of a priori established population projections.