swe_infant: Infant Mortality in Sweden

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Infant Mortality in Sweden

Description

Counts of births and infant deaths in Sweden by county and year, 1995-2015

Usage

swe_infant

Format

A tibble with 441 rows and the following columns:

• county: A factor with 21 levels, where the levels are ordered by number of births, from "Stockholm" down to "Gotland"

• 'time: Calendar year

• births: Count of births

• deaths: Count of infant deaths

Details

Dataset used in Chapter 11 of the book Bayesian Demographic Estimation and Forecasting.

Source

Database "Live births by region, mother's age and child's sex. Year 1968 - 2017" and database "Deaths by region, age (during the year) and sex. Year 1968 - 2017" on the Statistics Sweden website. Downloaded on 13 July 2018.

References

Bryant J and Zhang J. 2018. Bayesian Demographic Estimation and Forecasting. CRC Press.

See Also

• datasets Overview of datasets in bage

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