mx_south: Mortality rates mx from the South model life table

Description Usage Format Details Source See Also

Description

Mortality rates mx, by age, sex, Lexis triangle, and life table level, for the South model life table.

Usage

1

Format

An object of class array of dimension 15 x 2 x 2 x 25.

Details

For a description of life tables, and South model life tables, see http://demographicestimation.iussp.org.

Above age 5, values for the upper Lexis triangle are identical to values for the lower Lexis triangle, for the same age, sex, and lifetable level. Below age 5, the triangles are weighted averages of mortality rates for ages 0 and 1-4.

Source

The values were obtained from the cdmlts function in package demogR.

See Also

Lx_south


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