dk_population: Population at the town level for selected Danish towns

Description Usage Format Source

Description

A dataset containing the population of selected Danish towns during the period they had cholera epidemics. Data for years ending in "0" or "5" come from census data. any years inbetween were imputed assuming a linear trend between the two census data points. Census data comes via danishfamilysearch.com

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 10 rows and 3 variables:

city

character vector of the name of the city/town.

year

Integer vector of the year the population data is for.

pop

Numeric vector of the census population or the estimated population.

Source

Danish census data via danishfamilysearch.com. Data entered by Mads Perner and Matthew Phelps


matthew-phelps/CholeraDataDK documentation built on May 21, 2019, 12:59 p.m.