Lexis.points: Plots ages and calendar years at transitions in Lexis diagram

In Biograph: Explore Life Histories

Description

Plots observations in age-time diagram for each category of categorical covariate (using ggplot2)

Usage

Lexis.points(Bdata, transition, title, cov,group,legend.pos,pdf)

Arguments

Bdata	Biograph object
transition	The transition selected, e.g. "NJ" in GLHS data
title	Title of Lexis diagram
cov	Covariate. Observations are plotted for each category of this covariate. If observations should be plotted for the total sample population, cov = NA
group	Covariate. Graphs for groups are in separate panels.
legend.pos	position of legend
pdf	If graph should be stored in pdf file: pdf=TRUE, else pdf=FALSE

Value

graph

Note

requires ggplot2

Author(s)

Frans Willekens.

See Also

Lexispoints (requires Epi)

Examples

#  Example 1: ages at labour market entry, by sex
  data(GLHS)
  #y <- Parameters(GLHS)
  t <- "Date and age at labour market entry by sex and cohort"
  z <- Lexis.points (GLHS,"NJ",title=t,cov="sex",group="cohort",legend.pos="right",pdf=FALSE)

#  Example 2: ages at first birth among married women, by religious denomination
  data(NLOG98)
  y <- Parameters (NLOG98)
  t <- "Date and age at first birth (married women) by religion and cohort"
  z <- Lexis.points (NLOG98,"MK",title=t,cov="kerk",group="cohort",legend.pos="right",pdf=FALSE)
#  Example 3: ages at leaving home, by birth cohort (any destination)
  t <- "Date and age at leaving parental home by religion and education"
  z <- c(0.7,0.2)
  z <- Lexis.points (NLOG98,"H*",title=t,cov="kerk",group="educ",legend.pos=z,pdf=FALSE)  
  

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