lifetable: Life Table

Description Usage Format Source

Description

Cohort life tables for each gender derived from CDC data.

Usage

1

Format

A data frame:

x

Age in years.

sex

Gender.

lx

The number of people who survive to age x from an initial cohort of 100 000.

dx

The expected number of people from the initial cohort who die aged x on their last birthday.

qx

The probability that a person aged x will die before reaching age x+1.

Source

Data gathered from http://www.cdc.gov/. Subsequently summarised.


DataWookie/lifespan documentation built on March 3, 2021, 3:54 a.m.