microsimulate: microsimulate

In virgesmith/demographyMicrosim: Microsynthesis and microsimulation worked examples for demography

Description

This function projects an (synthetic) population from aggregate census data. Members of the population are categorised by age, sex, ethnicity and geographical location. - births are a single child only (assumed that twins etc are accounted for in the fertility rate) - newborns are equally likely to be male or female (this may be incorrect esp. for certain ethnicities) - ethnicity of newborn is the same as mother (in the absence of other information) - the death rate for age zero is the average of the rate of stillbirths and deaths under one year - births supersede deaths: thus a person who gives birth and dies in a single year will have a surviving child

Usage

microsimulate(synpop, years)

Arguments

synpop	a dataframe containing the base population to be projected
years	a number of years to run the simulation

Value

a data.table containing the projected population

Examples

## Not run: 
synpop = microsynthesise()
projpop = microsimulate(synpop, 10)

## End(Not run)

virgesmith/demographyMicrosim documentation built on May 29, 2019, 12:42 p.m.