@incollection{fdi:010093134,
  title = {{S}upercentenarians in {F}rance},
  author = {{M}esl{\'e}, {F}. and {V}allin, {J}. and {R}obine, {J}.{M}. and {D}esplanques, {G}. and {C}ournil, {A}mandine},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}hree data sources can be used to enumerate {F}rench supercentenarians: a list of names compiled from personal archives, death records from vital statistics, and transcripts of individual records from the {RNIPP} ({R}{\'e}pertoire national d'identification des personnes physiques, or {N}ational {I}dentification {R}egister of {P}rivate {I}ndividuals). {N}one of these three sources is exhaustive. {A} comparison with the {E}nglish list of supercentenarians shows that the list of names is quite incomplete. {V}ital statistics contain a lot of erroneous cases due to inaccuracy in the registration of age at death. {F}urthermore, until 1987, the {F}rench {N}ational {I}nstitute for {S}tatistics and {E}conomic {S}tudies ({I}nstitut {N}ational de la {S}tatistique et des {\'e}tudes {\'e}conomiques, or {INSEE}) deemed all ages at death exceeding 109 to be unacceptable, and did not record any death beyond that age. {T}he {RNIPP} is the most reliable source. {A}mong the 83 cases of persons who died at age 109+, the age at death was found to be correct for 67 and false for four, while 12 cases have still not been completely investigated. {T}he age at death was verified by checking dates at both the birthplace and the place of death. {B}y comparing cases from the {RNIPP} to cases from the list of names, the deaths of 46 supercentenarians were confirmed from 1987 to 2000.},
  keywords = {{FRANCE}},
  booktitle = {{S}upercentenarians},
  numero = {},
  pages = {119--136},
  address = {{H}eidelberg},
  publisher = {{S}pringer},
  series = {{D}emographic {R}esearch {M}onographs},
  year = {2010},
  DOI = {10.1007/978-3-642-11520-2_7},
  ISBN = {978-3-642-11519-6},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010093134},
}