select_lifetable: Select lifetable from dataset.

In stephematician/lifetable: Australian lifetable data

Description

Select from a lifetable dataset by year and state.

Usage

select_lifetable(df, year = 2013, loc = "AU")

Arguments

df	a data.frame such as abs_lt supplied by this package.
year	integer year specifying the first year of the lifetable, interpretation depends on dataset, i.e. ABS (abs_lt) 2002 refers to the 2002-2004 lifetable
loc	abbreviation of location to retrieve, default value is 'AU' for the national life-table, other valid values depend on the dataset, ABS (abs_lt) 'ACT', 'NSW', 'NT', 'QLD', 'SA', 'TAS', 'VIC' and 'WA'

Details

Performs a simple filter and select to extract lifetable data by year and location code (e.g. state).

Value

data.frame of lifetable in a long format: age, sex, measurement type (e.g. 'lx', 'qx' etc.) and the value.

Examples

  select_lifetable(abs_lt, 2010, 'QLD')

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