dLH: Individual fertility histories of members of a virtual...

In Families: Kinship Ties in (Virtual) Multi-Generation Populations

Individual fertility histories of members of a virtual population. Sample dataset.

Description

Fertility histories based on period data and in the presence of mortality. The histories are simulated from age-specific death rates and conditional fertility rates of USA 2021. The virtual population consists of 5 generations (with selected info on members of the sixth generation). The VirtualPop package is used to generate the population.

Usage

data(dLH,package="Families")

Format

A data frame with data of about 7,000 individuals (2000 in initial cohort).

ID

Identification number

gen

Generation

cohort

Birth cohort

sex

Sex. A factor with levels Males and Females

bdated

Date of birth (decimal date)

ddated

Date of death (decimal date)

x_D

Age at death (decimal number)

IDmother

ID of mother

IDfather

ID of father

jch

Child's line number in the household

IDpartner

ID of partner

udated

Date of union formation

nch

Number of children ever born to woman

Source

The data for the simulation are period mortality rates by age and sex and period fertility rates by age and birth order for the United States 2021. The data are downloaded from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) and the Human Fertility Database (HFD).

Families documentation built on May 29, 2024, 3:06 a.m.