ratesC: Cohort rates

In VirtualPop: Simulation of Populations by Sampling Waiting-Time Distributions

Cohort rates

Description

Cohort rates of mortality by age and sex and fertility by age and parity, USA birth cohort 1964

Usage

data(ratesC,package="VirtualPop")

Format

A list of three objects.

ASDR

Mortality rates

ASFR

Fertility rates

ratesM

Multistate transition rates

The object returned by the function has five attributes:

• Country

• type: Type of data (period data or cohort data)

• cohort: Birth cohort (year of birth)

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

• start_pASDR: Lowest age for which cohort data are missing. The mortality rates of that age and higher ages are borrowed from period data collected in the reference year.

Source

The data are downloaded from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) and the Human Fertility Database (HFD). Country: USA. Cohort: 1964

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