Description: The premise underlying the method illustrated is simply that, in a suit for damages based on earnings lost by reason of premature death or permanent disability, the value of future earnings should not be measured in terms of the whole of life but rather in terms of a more realistic work life expectancy.

Description: This paper examines the demographic effects of the aging 'baby boom' generation on the North American group insurance market in terms of projected growth rates for the labor force and for several related population-base quantities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.

Description: This paper reviews the recently published Canadian literature on changing Canadian demographic profiles and highlights the actuarial aspects of the information provided therein. Discussions of this paper are included.

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: This paper examines demographic and economic trends of the 1970's and suggests implications with regards to the life insurance industry. Some of the trends include changes in distribution of income, age, family size, inflation, population size, environmental instability and there is discussion of some of the underlying causes of these developments.