An indirect estimation of life expectancy at birth and at age one: With an application to districts in EAG states of India.

Here in this study an attempt has been made to suggest a new methodology, based on regression approach to estimate the life expectancy at birth and also the life expectancy at age one for districts of EAG states and Assam in India using the following four simple demographic indicators namely: the crude death rate, the crude birth rate, the infant mortality rate and the proportion (or percent) of population aged 65 and above from annual reports of Sample Registration System (SRS) data. The basis of this methodology is adopted from a methodology which is earlier suggested by Bourgeois-Pichat (1983) for some other purpose but this has not been tried before for Indian situation.
This methodology is applied to estimate the life expectancy at birth for 2011 to the districts of EAG states and Assam in India utilizing the Annual Health Survey (AHS-2011) published results data under the Office of Registrar General of India.
The consistency and acceptability of the results obtained through this new method have been tested by comparing them with that of LEB that can be obtained using other methods which have also used the similar input in their development and result is quite acceptable.