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Launch of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies in Ireland The Centre for Longitudinal Studies in Ireland, a joint venture between  ESRI and Trinity College, will be launched by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins at 4.30pm on 4th April 2012. This …

Mortality Trends in Ireland in the 20th Century Irish Mortality – Past trends and future projections Trends in Irish mortality for all causes of death and by major cause of death will be analysed from 1901 to 2006 and compared with mortality rates in …

Webcast: The Impact of Gender Equalisation on the EU Health Insurance Industry The webcast is in response to the recent EU directive prescribing gender-neutral rates for insurance. For those health insurers with differentiated rates on the basis of …

The New Agenda on Ageing – Making Ireland the best country to grow old in The keynote speaker is Prof David Bloom, Director for the Global Demography of Aging Programme in Harvard and Chairman of the World Economic Forum, Global Ageing Council.  Using the …

Sessional research event: Forecasting death rates using exogenous determinants The first paper to be presented addresses three research questions: Can the factors found in stochastic mortality-forecasting models be associated with real-world trends in …

Longevity Catalysts Current approaches to the assessment of future mortality trends are heavily reliant on reference to historical mortality data.  This is not without foundation – but     drivers behind past trends are often “one-off” type events which …