goodman: Demographic data from Venezuela, Madagascar and the United...
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Aggregate vital registration data for female from Venezuela (1965), Madagascar (1966), and the United States (1967) used in Goodman, Keyfitz, and Pullam (1974).

1	data(goodman)

A data frame with 19 observations on the following 10 variables.

age: age classes
ven.nKx: mid-year population structure for Venezuela
ven.nDx: enumerated deaths for Venezuela
ven.bx: enumerated births for Venezuela
mad.nKx: mid-year population structure for Madagascar
mad.nDx: enumerated deaths for Madagascar
mad.bx: enumerated births for Madagascar
usa.nKx: mid-year population structure for the United States
usa.nDx: enumerated deaths for the United States
usa.bx: enumerated births for the United States

Vital event data tabulated by Keyfitz and Flieger (1990) and used by Goodman et al. (1974) to illustrate their kinship frequency calculations. The three female populations represent tremendous diversity in age-specific demographic schedules. Venezuela (1965) is characterized by low mortality and high fertility; Madagascar (1966) is characterized by very high mortality and fertility, while the United States (1967) is characterized by low mortality and low fertility.

Keyfitz and Flieger (1990), Goodman et al. (1974)

Keyfitz, N., and W. Flieger. 1990. World population growth and aging: Demographic trends in the late twentieth century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Goodman, L. A., N. Keyfitz, and T. W. Pullum. 1974. Family formation and the frequency of various kinship relationships. Theoretical Population Biology 5:1-27.

data(goodman)
## Plot age-specific mortality rates for the three populations
with(goodman, plot(age, usa.nDx/usa.nKx, type="l", log="y", xlab="Age", ylab="nMx"))
with(goodman, lines(age, mad.nDx/mad.nKx, lty=2))
with(goodman, lines(age, ven.nDx/ven.nKx, lty=3))
legend("bottomright", c("USA","Madagascar","Venezuela"), lty=c(1,2,3))