Mortality Modelling And Forecasting For Elderly Population In Malaysia: A Comparison Between Lee-Carter Model And Heligman-Pollard Model

The number of population in many countries might undergo dramatic changes in the coming decades due to continuous increases in life expectancy. The sustained reduction in mortality rates and its systematic underestimation has attracted a significant interest of worldwide researchers in recent yea...

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spelling my-usim-ddms-124892024-05-29T04:13:49Z Mortality Modelling And Forecasting For Elderly Population In Malaysia: A Comparison Between Lee-Carter Model And Heligman-Pollard Model Nuraini Binti Ngataman The number of population in many countries might undergo dramatic changes in the coming decades due to continuous increases in life expectancy. The sustained reduction in mortality rates and its systematic underestimation has attracted a significant interest of worldwide researchers in recent years due to its potential impact on population size and structure, social security systems, and the life insurance and pensions industry (from an actuarial perspective). Among all projection methods, Lee- Carter model has been widely accepted by the actuarial community. In addition, Heligman-Pollard model is a well-known parametric model that has been widely used by researchers. Therefore, this research explores the use of the Lee-Carter model and Heligman-Pollard model to forecast the mortality rates for elderly population in Malaysia. Since the model involves nonlinear equations that are explicitly difficult to solve, the Matrix Laboratory Version 8.0 (MATLAB 8.0) software is used in the study while Statistical Package for the Social Sciences Version 22.0 (SPSS 22.0) is applied to forecast all the parameters according to Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) for both models. The empirical data sets of Malaysian population for period of 1981 to 201 5 for both genders is considered, which the period of 198 1 to 2010 is used as the "training set" and the period of 201 1 to 2015 as the ''testing set". In order to investigate the accuracy of the estimation, the forecasted results are compared against actual data of mortality rates using Mean Absolute Percentage Error ( W E ) . The result shows that the Heligman-Pollard model fits mortality rates better for male while Lee-Carter model performs better for female elderly population in Malaysia Apart from that, the forecasting of mortality rates for the 10 upcoming years, from 2016 until year 2025 shows the continuation of the declining trends of mortality since the past 35 years of study. Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia 2016-12 Thesis en_US https://oarep.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/12489 https://oarep.usim.edu.my/bitstreams/0a3726f5-34dc-4996-a029-b5fc1c50d0d1/download 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 Mortality--Malaysia Mortality--Statistics
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Mortality--Statistics
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Nuraini Binti Ngataman
Mortality Modelling And Forecasting For Elderly Population In Malaysia: A Comparison Between Lee-Carter Model And Heligman-Pollard Model
description The number of population in many countries might undergo dramatic changes in the coming decades due to continuous increases in life expectancy. The sustained reduction in mortality rates and its systematic underestimation has attracted a significant interest of worldwide researchers in recent years due to its potential impact on population size and structure, social security systems, and the life insurance and pensions industry (from an actuarial perspective). Among all projection methods, Lee- Carter model has been widely accepted by the actuarial community. In addition, Heligman-Pollard model is a well-known parametric model that has been widely used by researchers. Therefore, this research explores the use of the Lee-Carter model and Heligman-Pollard model to forecast the mortality rates for elderly population in Malaysia. Since the model involves nonlinear equations that are explicitly difficult to solve, the Matrix Laboratory Version 8.0 (MATLAB 8.0) software is used in the study while Statistical Package for the Social Sciences Version 22.0 (SPSS 22.0) is applied to forecast all the parameters according to Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) for both models. The empirical data sets of Malaysian population for period of 1981 to 201 5 for both genders is considered, which the period of 198 1 to 2010 is used as the "training set" and the period of 201 1 to 2015 as the ''testing set". In order to investigate the accuracy of the estimation, the forecasted results are compared against actual data of mortality rates using Mean Absolute Percentage Error ( W E ) . The result shows that the Heligman-Pollard model fits mortality rates better for male while Lee-Carter model performs better for female elderly population in Malaysia Apart from that, the forecasting of mortality rates for the 10 upcoming years, from 2016 until year 2025 shows the continuation of the declining trends of mortality since the past 35 years of study.
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title Mortality Modelling And Forecasting For Elderly Population In Malaysia: A Comparison Between Lee-Carter Model And Heligman-Pollard Model
title_short Mortality Modelling And Forecasting For Elderly Population In Malaysia: A Comparison Between Lee-Carter Model And Heligman-Pollard Model
title_full Mortality Modelling And Forecasting For Elderly Population In Malaysia: A Comparison Between Lee-Carter Model And Heligman-Pollard Model
title_fullStr Mortality Modelling And Forecasting For Elderly Population In Malaysia: A Comparison Between Lee-Carter Model And Heligman-Pollard Model
title_full_unstemmed Mortality Modelling And Forecasting For Elderly Population In Malaysia: A Comparison Between Lee-Carter Model And Heligman-Pollard Model
title_sort mortality modelling and forecasting for elderly population in malaysia: a comparison between lee-carter model and heligman-pollard model
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