rates: Period rates

ratesR Documentation

Period rates

Description

Data consisting of period rates of mortality by age and sex and fertility by age and parity, USA 2021

Usage

data(rates,package="VirtualPop")

Format

A list of three objects.

ASDR

Mortality rates

ASFR

Fertility rates

ratesM

Multistate transition rates

The dataset has three attributes:

  • Country

  • Type of rates: period rates or cohort rates

  • Calendar year for which period death rates are used to complete cohort experience in case of incomplete mortality experience (reference year).

Source

The data are downloaded from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) and the Human Fertility Database (HFD). Country: USA. Year: 2021


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