sprague | R Documentation |
Using the Sprague multipliers, the age counts are estimated for each year having 5-years interval data as input.
sprague(x)
x |
numeric vector of age counts in five-year intervals |
The input is population counts of age classes 0-4, 5-9, 10-14, ... , 77-74, 75-79, 80+.
Population counts for age 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 78, 79, 80+.
Matthias Templ
G. Calot and J.-P. Sardon. Methodology for the calculation of Eurostat's demographic indicators. Detailed report by the European Demographic Observatory
whipple
## example from the world bank
x <- data.frame(age=as.factor(c(
"0-4",
"5-9","10-14","15-19", "20-24",
"25-29","30-34","35-39","40-44","45-49",
"50-54","55-59","60-64","65-69","77-74","75-79","80+"
)),
pop=c(1971990, 2095820,2157190, 2094110,2116580, 2003840, 1785690,
1502990, 1214170, 796934, 627551, 530305, 488014,
364498, 259029,158047, 125941)
)
s <- sprague(x[,2])
s
all.equal(sum(s), sum(x[,2]))
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