An Introduction to Community & Public Health 8th Edition by James McKenzie, Pinger

Exercise 4

Using the data presented in Table 1, estimate (as best you can) the life expectancy of your siblings, parents, and grandparents at birth. If your grandparents are older than 65, determine what their life expectancies were when they turned 65. If you were to fulfi ll your life expectancy exactly, in what year can you expect to die?
TABLE 1 Life Expectancy at Birth, at 65 Years of Age, and at 75 Years of Age According to Sex: In the United States, During the Selected Years 1900-2010
*Data not available.
Data from: National Center for Health Statistics (2013). "Health, United States, 2012, With Special Feature on Emergency Care." (DHHS pub. no. 2013-1232). Hyattsville, MD: Author. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus12.pdf.