前言编制居民寿命表是研究居民健康水平的重要方法之一。过去发表过一些寿命表,但多系城市人口寿命表,而农村的则较少见。我们曾于1964年编制过1958—1959辽宁金县居民(主要是农民)的简略寿命表,由于包括县城居民及企业工人在内,所以还不是纯农村人口寿命表。在那次编表过程中,深感资料来之不易。一九七四年全国进行了肿瘤普查,拟对该资料加以利用,但又考虑到存在如下几个问题: Foreword The preparation of residents’ life table is one of the most important methods to study the health of residents. Some life charts have been published in the past, but most of them are urban life tables, while rural ones are less common. In 1964, we compiled a simplified life table for residents of Jinxian County, Liaoning Province (mainly farmers) from 1958 to 1959. Due to the inclusion of county residents and enterprise workers, it is not a purely rural life table. In the compilation process, it was hard to find the information hard to come by. In 1974, a national census of cancer was carried out and the data was intended to be used. However, the following issues were also considered: