Session 1: Developing Subnational Life Tables

• United States Life Table Program – Subnational Life Tables, Elizabeth Arias, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
• Possibility to Extend the HMD Approach to Subnational Data, Dmitri Jdanov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
• The United States Mortality DataBase: Current Status and Future Projects, Celeste Winant, UC Berkeley, USA
• Latin American Mortality Database LAMBdA – Advantages and Disadvantages for Creating a Subnational LAMBdA Life Tables, Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, UC, Los Angeles, USA

Session 2: Mortality Estimation

• Challenges for Estimating National and Sub-National Mortality for China and India, Domantas Jasilionis, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
• Japanese Regional Human Mortality Database: Current State and Challenges, Keita Suga, Motomi Beppu and Fetoshi Ishii, National Institute of Population and Social Securiy Research, Japan
• Life tables for Indigenous Australians: Challenges and Solutions, Tetteh Dugbaza, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia
• Small Area Estimation of Indigenous Life Expectancy in Australia, John Bryant, Bayesian Demography Ltd, New Zealand

Session 3: Mortality in Small Areas

• A Bayesian Model to Estimate Mortality in Small Populations, Celeste Winant, UC Berkeley, USA
• Constructing Subnational Life Tables in Populations with Incomplete Death Registration: The Age-Specific Empirical Completeness Method, Tim Adair, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• How Can a Cause-of-Death Reduction Be Compensated for by the Population Heterogeneity? A Dynamic Approach, Héloïse Labit Hardy, University of New South Wales, Australia
• SVD-derived Life Tables indexed by Child Mortality, Samuel Clark, The Ohio State University, USA

Session 4: Forecasting

• Coherent Mortality Forecasts for Australian States, Heather Booth, The Australian National University, Australia
• Mortality Modelling and Forecasting by Provinces/States in Australia, Canada and USA, Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Grouped Multivariate Functional Time Series Method: An Application to Subnational Mortality Forecasting, Yang Yang, The Australian National University, Australia
• Functional Time Series Clustering and Forecasting: A Functional Panel Data Approach, Chen Tang, The Australian National University, Australia
• Dynamic Principal Component Regression: Application to Age-Specific Mortality Forecasting, Han Lin Shang, The Australian National University, Australia

Session 5: Modelling and Evaluation of Mortality

• Evaluating the Assumptions on the Completeness of Registered Deaths in Peru by Age, Sex and Departments from 2000 to 2017, Helena Cruz Castanheira, The Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre, UN
• Subnational Mortality Contribution to National Life Expectancy, Vladimir Canudas-Romo, The Australian National University, Australia
• Modelling Mortality by Cause of Death and Socio-Economic Stratification: An Analysis of Mortality Differentials in England, Andrés Villegas, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Decomposing Changes in the Life Expectancy Disparity across Regions of Russia, Sergey Timonin, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Session 6: Analysis

• The Evolving Geography of US Mortality. A State-Level Analysis of Converging/Diverging Trend in the Length of Life, Magali Barbieri, UC Berkeley, USA / INED, France
• Understanding the Relative Attractiveness and Retention Capability of Regional Areas in Australia, Bernard Baffour, The Australian National University, Australia
• Modelling Life Tables with Advanced Ages: an Extreme Value Theory Approach, Fei Huang, The Australian National University, Australia
• Unnatural Death: Inter-Gender Murder Trends in New South Wales, 1901-1955, Collin Payne & Carolyn Strange, The Australian National University, Australia

Session 7: New directions and R Programs

• Methodological Issues in Constructing a French HMD for the 20th Century, Magali Barbieri, UC Berkeley, USA / Institut National D’études Démographiques, France
• Regional Disparities in Cause-Specific Mortality in Europe, Pavel Grigoriev, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
• HMD R-package for Data Quality Checks, László Nemeth, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany & Carl Boe, UC Berkeley, USA

The Human Mortality Database is the leading source of mortality and population data at the national level and contains detailed data for over 40 populations. Additionally, there exist four country-specific databases devoted to subnational data series: