wpp2012-package: World Population Prospects 2012

Description Details Note Author(s) Source References

Description

Data from the United Nations World Population Prospects 2012.

Details

Package: wpp2012
Version: 2.2-1
Date: 2014-8-21
Depends: R (>= 2.14.2)
License: GPL (>= 2)
URL: http://esa.un.org/wpp, http://esa.un.org/unpd/ppp

The package contains the following datasets:

Note

Distributions of net migrants by age and sex are provided for illustrative purpose only. Migration figures are based on intercensal net residuals and official statistics, population distribution by age and sex or simplified versions of Rogers-Castro migration age patterns, and incorporate statistical adjustment errors.

Author(s)

Hana Sevcikova (hanas@uw.edu), Patrick Gerland (gerland@un.org), Kirill Andreev (andreev@un.org), Nan Li (li32@un.org), Danan Gu (gud@un.org), Thomas Spoorenberg (spoorenberg@un.org)

Maintainer: Hana Sevcikova <hanas@uw.edu>

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013). The probabilistic projections were produced with the method of Raftery et al. (2012).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp) Special Tabulations.

Probabilistic projections: http://esa.un.org/unpd/ppp

A. E. Raftery, N. Li, H. Sevcikova , P. Gerland, G. K. Heilig (2012). Bayesian probabilistic population projections for all countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:13915-13921.


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