indmortality-package: Australian indigenous mortality rates and life expectancies

In robjhyndman/indmortality: Indigenous mortality for Australia

Description

Package prepared for the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare to compute life expectancy and other mortality-related information for the Australian indigenous population using simulation and nonparametric smoothing.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman <[e-mail]>

References

Choi, C., Hyndman, R.J., Smith, L., and Zhao, K. (2010) An enhanced mortality database for estimating indigenous life expectancy. Report for Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

See Also

demography

Examples

nsw <- make.demogdata(state="NSW", population="backcast")
plot(nsw)
life.expectancy.mean(nsw)
life.expectancy.ci(nsw)

# Complete calculation for Australia, 2001-2005.
aus1 <- make.demogdata(state="AUS", year=2001:2005, aveyear=TRUE,
   population="cohort")
aus2 <- make.demogdata(state="AUS", year=2001:2005, aveyear=TRUE,
   population="interpolated")
aus3 <- make.demogdata(state="AUS", year=2001:2005, aveyear=TRUE,
   population="backcast")
life.expectancy.mean(aus1)
life.expectancy.ci(aus1)
life.expectancy.mean(aus2)
life.expectancy.ci(aus2)
life.expectancy.mean(aus3)
life.expectancy.ci(aus3)

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