Disability Free Lifetime Expectancy for men and women in Skåne using Sullivan’s Method

Abstract: Title: Disability Free Lifetime Expectancy for men and women in Skåne using Sullivan’s Method. Author: Daniel Åström Supervisors: Jan Lanke and Juan Merlo Aim: The aim of the thesis is to investigate if differences in DFLE between genders and between 2000 and 2004 can be detected in Region Skåne Method: Using data from Region Skåne’s Folkhälsoenkät new weights for the data set have been computed and the proportion of disabled calculated. Life tables specific to Skåne were created and from those DFLE in Skåne were calculated. To see if the results are statistically significant Wilcoxon signed rank test is used. Results: The study indicates that differences in DFLE between the genders could not be detected in 2000 but in 2004 the men were living a life free of disability to a higher extent than women. No statistical significant differences in DFLE for women between 2000 and 2004 were noted. For men the increase in DFLE between 2000 and 2004 was significant. Key words: Life expectancy, Disability Free Lifetime Expectancy, disabled, Wilcoxon