Society of Actuaries life table actuarial object.

Description

This table has been used by the classical book Actuarial Mathematics to exemplify life contingencies calculations. Society of Actuaries has been using this table when administering US actuarial professional MLC preliminary exam.

Usage

data(soa08)

Format

The format is: Formal class 'lifetable' [package ".GlobalEnv"] with 3 slots ..@ x : int [1:95] 0 5 10 15 20 21 22 23 24 25 ... ..@ lx : int [1:95] 10000000 9749503 9705588 9663731 9617802 9607896 9597695 9587169 9576288 9565017 ... ..@ name: chr "SOA2008"

Details

Early ages are missed in the original life table and have been filled with straight interpolation.

Note

This table is based on US 1990 general population mortality.

References

Actuarial Mathematics (Second Edition), 1997, by Bowers, N.L., Gerber, H.U., Hickman, J.C., Jones, D.A. and Nesbitt, C.J.

Examples

data(soa08)
## maybe str(soa08) ; plot(soa08) ...

Results