mkdate: Compute dates.

In MAPLES: Smoothed age profile estimation

Description

Computes dates in continuous years or CMC (Century Month Code) since January 1, 1900.

Usage

mkdate(year, month, cmc = FALSE)

Arguments

year	a vector containing the year of a date(XXXX format)
month	a vector containing the month of a date (XX format)
cmc	if TRUE date in CMC from January 1, 1900 is computed. Otherwise, date in continuos time since January 1, 1900 is computed.

Value

a vector containing dates in continuous time or CMC.

Author(s)

Roberto Impicciatore [e-mail]

References

Impicciatore R. and Billari F.C., (2010), MAPLES: a general method for the estimation of age profiles from standard demographic surveys (with an application to fertility), DEAS WP,
http://ideas.repec.org/p/mil/wpdepa/2010-40.html

Examples

dy<-c(1996,2001,2005,2003)
dm<-c(3,9,5,12)
mkdate(year=dy,month=dm)
mkdate(year=dy,month=dm, cmc=TRUE)

MAPLES documentation built on May 2, 2019, 9:41 a.m.