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Covers demographic methods commonly used to understand how long people live and how this varies over time, across space, and between population groups. Explores the construction of life tables to calculate life expectancy, and understand its determinants. Introduces multi-state methods to calculate what proportion of their life individuals spend in good health, or affected by various illnesses and limitations. Emphasizes the practical application of these methods to the analysis of several large demographic datasets.