HMDdata {MortalitySmooth} | R Documentation |
Age-specific population, deaths, exposures and rates from the Human Mortality Database.
data(HMDdata)
Object of class HMDdata
containing, for each country, the
following components:
female
, male
,
total
. pop
. pop
. pop
.
The list contained 4 countries (Denmark, Japan, Sweden and
Switzerland). Data taken from the Human Mortality Database on 10 June
2009. Data are accessible either manually or using
selectHMDdata
.
For a given country, the matrices have the same dimensions. The vector
age
is the same for each country (0:110), whereas years depends
on the availability.
pop
indicates population size on January 1st of each age and
year.
death
are death counts occurred during one age-year interval.
exposure
population is approximated by the average of the
population size in the beginning and at the end of the year.
rate
are computed as ratio between death counts and exposures.
Carlo G Camarda
Human Mortality Database www.mortality.org
Human Mortality Database (2009). University of California, Berkeley (USA), and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany). Available at www.mortality.org.
data(HMDdata) plot(HMDdata$Japan$year, HMDdata$Japan$pop$female[81,], main="Japan population, female, age 80") # list of available countries names(HMDdata)