Description: This is the second of three articles. The first April issue told how the 1973 Experience Table was constructed. Outlined here are two steps: i projecting the values in the 1973 Experience Table to produce the 1983 Basic Table, and ii reducing the 1983 Basic Table q's to arrive at the recommended annuity valuation table called the 1983 Table a.

Description: Article from The Actuary, May 1985 – Volume No. 19, Issue No. 5 that discusses the NAIC adoption, for future use, of two tests of continued adequacy of the 1983 Table A.

Description: The Society’s Committee to Recommend a New Mortality Basis for Individual Annuity Valuation was formed in 1980 at NAIC request because the margins in the 1971 IAM Table had eroded. This article describes the development of the 1983 Table a and shows how well the 1973 Experience Table fits the underlying data.

Description: This is an article that was written by the chairman of the committee that developed 1983 Table a, which NAIC has adopted for individual annuity valuation. This article compares the mortality rates in the 1983 Table a with those of two prior annuity tables.

Description: The last of three articles on the 1983 Table a. The first two articles described the steps in contructing the 1973 Experience Table and the 1983 Table a. This article compares the reserves from the 1983 Table a to the 1971 IAM Table at various ages and by gender.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1983, volume no. 17, issue no. 6, that highlights since 1981, U.S. federal budget cutbacks have clamped down hard on the federal agencies that produce all kinds of statistics - demographic, economic and regulatory data. Actuaries, who use these federal statistics to develop mortality tables, to produce marketing studies, to examine economic trends, and to study health costs, should work with the federal agencies to restore this data.

Description: Review of the fifth and final report in the 1960 Census Monograph Series created by the Social Science Research Council. Makes a compelling case for the monograph providing a good historical and statistical analysis of the changing U.S. population and demographics.

Description: This subject of this article is the Committee of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics COPAFS, a new organization is being formed with membership composed of associations with an interest in U.S. federal statistics. The Board of Governors of the Society has authorized the Society's participation in COPAFS on a trial basis for one year. In explaining the purpose and role of COPAFS, the article notes that its formation was a result of the recommendations of the March 1978 report of the Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Government Statistics JAHCOGS, The SOA was represented on JAHCOGS by Robert J. Johansen, and he will be the SOA’s representative on COPAFS.

Description: This article is a brief review of the book “Crime by Computer,” by Donn B. Parker. If you have from time to time become concerned about the security of computer programs records and transactions, this book will give little comfort.

Description: In this paper the authors discuss the official decennial Unites States Life Tables for 1979-81, presenting age-specific mortality rates and expectations of life. Mortality trends are examined going back to the first decennial tables published at the beginning of the century, and brief comparisons with mortality in other industrialized countries are made. The paper includes written discussion. From the 1985 Transactions Vol. 37.