maori_deaths: Deaths of Maori people in New Zealand

Description Usage Format Details Source

Description

An array giving counts of deaths of Maori people, for calendar years 1996-2017. Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand.

Usage

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Format

An array with dimensions "age", "sex", and "year".

Details

The counts have been randomly rounded to base 3, to protect confidentiality.

For an analysis of these data, see Chapter 3 of Bayesian Demographic Estimation and Forecasting. For a discussion of random rounding to base 3, see Chapter 15.

Source

Table "Deaths by age and sex (Maori population) (Annual-Dec)" in the online database "Infoshare", on the Statistics New Zealand website. Downloaded on 30 June 2018.


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