Assessing the impact of including variation in general population mortality on standard errors of relative survival and loss in life expectancy

Table 1 Outline of different scenarios to incorporate uncertainty in the expected mortality

Scenario	cancer cohort used	size of general population used for population mortality	population mortality stratified by	corresponding conventional setting
A	full	original	age, year, sex	1
B	full	reduced to 10%	age, year, sex	1
C	full	reduced to 0.5%	age, year, sex	1
D	full	reduced to 0.05%	age, year, sex	1
E	reduced to 10%	reduced to 10%	age, year, sex	1S^a
F	full	original	age, year, sex, region	2
G	full	reduced to 10%	age, year, sex, region	2
H	full	reduced to 0.5%	age, year, sex, region	2
I	full	reduced to 0.05%	age, year, sex, region	2
J	reduced to 10%	reduced to 10%	age, year, sex, region	2S^a

^aS stands for small and refers to the setting to investigate what would be observed for a smaller population

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