Table 1.
Target ages (T) in the SHARE question about chances for survival to age T.
Table 2.
Algorithm of the model applied for the estimation of subjective life expectancies.
Fig 1.
Empirical distribution of 1000 segmented subjective life expectancies in the age interval 60–90 estimated with 1000 draws, German males, 2004 SHARE Wave 1 data; values ordered from low to high.
Table 3.
a) Segmented subjective and actual life expectancy (LE) and percentiles of the subjective LE, males, 9 European countries, 2004.
Table 4.
a) Segmented subjective and actual life expectancy (LE) and percentiles of the subjective LE, males, 9 European countries, 2015.
Table 5.
Temporal change in subjective and actual life expectancy from 2004 to 2015 (values in 2015 minus values in 2004), males and females.
Fig 2.
Subjective LE: 1000 values estimated with data from Wave 1 and 1000 values estimated with data from Wave 6 (exact procedure of estimation described in the previous section).
Values for each wave are ordered from low to high.
Table 6.
Gender differences in estimated and actual life expectancy (men’s minus women’s), 2004 and 2015.