austria_1992_lt: Example life table: Austria, 1992, males
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austria_1992_lt

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Example life table: Austria, 1992, males

Description

Example life table from Preston text book page 49. Post-hoc adjustment has been made to use radix (l0) of 1 instead of 100,000, as presented in the Preston book.

Original input data if from Austria, for males, from 1992, and comes from the United Nations, 1994, as cited in Preston book.

Usage

austria_1992_lt

Format

[data.table()] columns:

age_start: [integer()]
Abridged ages 0, 1, 5, 10, ..., 85. This is the 'x' variable in life table notation.
age_end: [integer()]
End of age group inclusive, 1, 5, 10, ... , 85, Inf
age_length: [integer()]
Width of the age interval in years. This is the 'n' variable in life table notation.
deaths: [numeric()]
Death counts in interval
population: [numeric()]
Population counts in interval
mx: [numeric()]
Mortality rate (deaths / population)
ax: [numeric()]
Mean person-years lived by those who die in interval.
qx: [numeric()]
Probability of death in interval conditional on survival to xth birthday.
px: [numeric()]
Probability of survival in interval.
lx: [numeric()]
Proportion surviving to age x.
dx: [numeric()]
Proportion of cohort dying in age interval x to x+n.
nLx: [numeric()]
Person-years lived between x and x+n per every one person in the cohort at birth.
Tx: [numeric()]
Person-years lived beyond age x per every one person in the cohort at birth.
ex: [numeric()]
Life expectancy.