MortalityGaps.data: DATA - for testing purposes

Description Usage Format Source

Description

Dataset containing records of life expectancy at birth and at age 65 for female and male populations living in 38 countries between 1950 and 2014. This dataset is used in Pascariu et. al (2017) article. The data is provided in the package for testing purposes and to ensure the reproducibility of the results and figures published in the article. By the time you are using it, it may be outdated. Download actual demographic data free of charge from Human Mortality Database. Once a username and a password is created on the website the MortalityLaws R package can be used to extract data directly into your R console.

Usage

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Format

An object of class MortalityGaps.data of length 2.

Source

Human Mortality Database


MortalityGaps documentation built on May 2, 2019, 10:22 a.m.