PercentASFR: Datasets on Age-specific Distribution of Fertility Rates

In wpp2017: World Population Prospects 2017

Description

Datasets giving the percentage of fertility rates over ages 15-50.

Usage

    data(percentASFR)

Format

A data frame with one row per country and age group. For each country there are seven age groups. It contains columns country_code, name, age and one column per five-year time interval (i.e., from 1 July in year t to 1 July in year t+5 such as the period 1950-1955 refers to the period 1950.5-1955.5 and the mid of the period is 1953.0).

Source

This dataset is based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2017).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision. http://population.un.org/wpp.

Examples

data(percentASFR)
str(percentASFR)

wpp2017 documentation built on Feb. 10, 2020, 9:07 a.m.