Finnish+Canadians-Karoliina+Lehtonen

I compared the male and female populations of Finnish-Canadians who died between the years 1995 and 2002.

Hypothesis: There are more females in the older age boundaries, and more men in the younger category boundaries, therefore I think that Finnish-Canadian Males have a shorter lifespan than Finnish-Canadian Females, which will follow the Type I Late Loss Curve.

Data Source:



Here's my survivorship graph

series 1 = Men series 2 = Women

Evaluation: There is a difference between the number of females/males in certain age boundaries and there are more men in the younger boundaries and more men in the older age boundaries. In that sense my hypothesis is correct however, I was wrong in predicting the Type I Late Loss Curve and this data does not show this.

Here are my limitations...

Some problems encountered while collecting obituary data were that there was a limited amount of people that could be searched while also fitting the category of research (Finnish-Canadians). Because not everyone who dies has an obituary, only the people who did are represented in the table and the graph. Also as I only looked at one database there was no way to make sure that all the Finnish-Canadians who died from 1995-2002 were represented. To gather more accurate data you would need to collect all the data from all the people who died between those years and evaluate that the curves and the trends.