CSA: Scaled SVD Components from Census School Attendance Data

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Scaled SVD Components from Census School Attendance Data

Description

An object of class "bage_ssvd" holding scaled SVD components derived from census data on school attendance. The attendance data is assembed by the United Nations Statistics Division. CSA holds 5 components.

Usage

CSA

Format

Object of class "bage_ssvd".

Versions:

• "v2025" (default). Data downloaded on 2025-11-05

Warning

Compared other age-sex patterns for other demographic processes such as mortality, age-sex patterns for school attendance show substantial variation across populations. More components may be needed to obtain satisfactory models of age-sex patterns for school attendance than for other processes.

Source

Derived from data in the "Population 5 to 24 years of age by school attendance, sex and urban/rural residence" table from the Population Censuses' Datasets database assembled by the United Nations Statistics Division. Code to create CSA is in folder ‘data-raw/ssvd_csa’ in the source code for the bage package.

See Also

• Scaled SVDs Overview of scaled SVDs implemented in bage

• SVD() A prior based on a scaled SVD

bage documentation built on Nov. 19, 2025, 9:07 a.m.