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At the end of the reconstruction described in the previous chapter, we had sex-specifi c and age-specifi c deaths by cause, classifi ed under the 177 items of the 1981 Soviet Classifi cation, as amended in 1988, for every year from 1965 to 2004 – 4 years in addition to those initially described in the French edition of this book (Meslé and Vallin 2003). Two further years, 2005 and 2006, had to be added, since cause-of-death statistics for Ukraine were also available for these. However, from 2005, Ukraine adopted the tenth Revision of the International Classifi cation of Diseases, at least in an abridged form with 240 items. Therefore, in order to make these 2 years consis-tent with the earlier ones, we would have had to reclassify the whole 1965–2004 series into the 240 ICD-10 items. Of course, a mere 2 years ’ experience of the new classifi cation was not enough to allow us to apply the method we used in the previ-ous chapter in reconstructing the 1965–2004 series: the period covered by the new classifi cation was too short to guarantee the validity of transition coeffi cients. Therefore we preferred to confi ne ourselves to provisional guarantees of more basic consistency for the groups of causes that had been used in analysing the results presented in the French edition, updated here for the English one. Consequently, Annex VI (on the Website