Description: This article examines the impact of a changing smoking rate on population-level mortality improvement and the importance of taking this driver into account.

Description: 1991-1995 individual life experience studies table.

Description: Results of the committee's 2006 Group Term Life Experience Study, based on experience data from 1999 through 2001. Experience included Death, Disability Waiver of Premium “Waiver”, and Accidental Death and Dismemberment “AD&D” benefits. Also, information is presented separately for Individually Billed versus Self-Administered business. Available pivot tables enable companies to perform their own analysis.

Description: Report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually written issues for policy years 2004-05 and excludes rated, converted, and other guaranteed or simplified issues. Policies in force under non-forfeiture provisions are also excluded.

Description: The Preferred Mortality Valuation Table Team prepared this presentation for the June 2008 NAIC LHATF Meeting. The Adobe Acrobat file on the SOA website for experience studies contains the presentation.This Excel workbook is a tool the valuation table team is using to develop values relating to margins for the new valuation mortality table. The purpose of the workbook is to evaluate different margin formulas and valuation tables. Also used for analysis of mortality margins on Valuation Basic Tables.

Description: The results of the 2016 Group Term Life Experience Study, which includes experience for policies in force anytime during 2010 through 2013.

Description: The Mortality Improvement Survey Subcommittee of the Society's Committee on Life Insurance Mortality & Underwriting Surveys has completed its report on the results of a survey to examine mortality improvement practices with respect to reinsurance pricing in both the US and Canada. A few questions were asked about functions other than pricing.

Description: This paper is intended to summarize the differences in theUP-94 and GAR-94 tables and to review issues that arise for actuaries in choosing the appropriate mortality table. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This report provides information on other mortality and morbidity data sources to consider. Some of these data sources are rich and complex. This report provides an overview of the data sources’ characteristics and a roadmap to delving into their details.

Description: Centenarians persons living to age 100 and over represent a population that could be useful in identifying factors leading to long life and avoidance of fatal diseases. This study explores whether people living to 100 and beyond were any different from their peers at their middle age 30 years in terms of their physical characteristics height and body build, occupation and marital status.