Capacities and Limitations of the Use of Data from Wikipedia for Analysis of Human Life Expectancy

The applicability of the data on the mean age of death (MAD) of people presented on Wikipedia to determine the survival patterns with respect to professional occupations is considered. The results of previous studies are described. Features of these data related to censorship and the selective nature of their collection are discussed. The proposed approach to account for these features makes it possible to clarify the obtained patterns and to expand the time range of the study.