un1956: Model Fertility Age Schedules from the United Nations (1956)

Description Usage Format Source Examples

Description

Emperical model age schdules by five-year age groups, based on the average shape of fertility distributions in 52 countries, 15 with comparatively high fertility (although the country with the highest fertility had a TFR of just over 5 children per woman), and 37 with relatively low fertility.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with columns:

age_group

Five year age group.

combined

ASFR over all countries scaled to a TFR of 0.2.

high

ASFR in high fertility countries scaled to a TFR of 0.2.

low

ASFR in low fertility countries scaled to a TFR of 0.2.

Source

Taken from http://papp.iussp.org/sessions/papp103_s03/PAPP103_s03_040_020.html.

Examples

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