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Footnotes

1. Greville TNE. Short methods of constructing abridged life tables. The Record of American Institute of Actuaries 1943; 32(65):29-42, Part 1.

2. Ng Edward and Gentleman Jane F, "The Impact of Estimation Method and Population Adjustment on Canadian Life Table Estimates", Health Reports 1995, Vol. 7, No.3, pp.15-22.

3. Spiegelman M. Introduction to Demography, Revised Edition. Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1968. p 113, Formula (4.29).

4. Fleiss JL, Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions, 2nd Ed, Wiley and Sons, NY, 1981. pg. 14, Formula (1.26) and (1.27).

5. Postal Code Conversion File –Plus, 82F0086XDB

6. Health regions: boundaries and correspondence with census geography, 82-42-XIE

7. Sullivan, DF. A single index of mortality and morbidity. HSMHA Health Reports 86 (April 1971) : 347-354

8. Chiang, CL. The Life Table and its Applications. Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., Malabar, Florida, 1984: 316

9. Mather, C. Health Expectancies in Australia 1981 and 1988. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1991: 117

10. Holland WW and EC Working Group on Health Services and Avoidable Deaths (1997), “European Community Atlas of Avoidable Death 1985 to 1989”, Oxford, Oxford Medical Publications, Commission of the European Communities Health Services Research Series, no.9, p. 371

11. Charlton JRH, "Avoidable deaths and diseases as monitors of health promotion", pp. 467-479, in Measurement in health promotion and protection, Copenhagen and Albany NY: World Health Organization and the International Epidemiological Association, 1987

12. Rutstein DD, "Monitoring progress and failure: sentinel health events (unnecessary diseases, disabilities and untimely deaths", pp. 195-212, in Measurement in health promotion and protection, Copenhagen and Albany NY: World Health Organization and the International Epidemiological Association, 1987

13. BC Stats. Generalized Estimation System (GES), Small Area Population Estimation Methodology. Ministry of Finance and Corporate Relations, December 1998.
Detailed information about the methodology used for estimating the age/gender distribution of small area population in British Columbia can be found in two documents on the BC Stats website www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca “Generalized Estimation System (GES)”, December 1998, and “Estimating the Age/Gender Distribution of Small Area Populations in British Columbia”, April 1994.