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Actuarial Study No. 116 displays life tables based on historical and projected mortality in the area covered by the United States Social Security program. This projected mortality was used in estimating the future costs for the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program included in the 2002 Report of the OASDI Board of Trustees to Congress. A web address for this and other Actuarial Studies is www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/actstud.html. The life tables in this study differ from the U.S. Decennial Life Tables published by the National Center for Health Statistics in conjunction with each decennial census. However, the tables in this study are better suited to studying time trends because, unlike the U.S. decennial tables, they have all been constructed using the same method.
Alice H. Wade
Deputy Chief Actuary
August 31, 2002
Printed copies of the study are available upon request at the Social Security Administration's
website, www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/NOTES/actstud.html, or by phone--Voice: (410)965-3015, Fax: (410)965-6693.
Social Security Administration
Office of the Chief Actuary
Room 700, Altmeyer Bldg.
Baltimore, MD 21235