Package 'addb'

Title: Australian Demographic Data Bank
Description: These data are from the Australian Demographic Data Bank. They can be plotted and analysed using the demography package.
Authors: Rob Hyndman [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Rob Hyndman <[email protected]>
License: GPL (>= 2)
Version: 3.225
Built: 2024-11-08 03:29:14 UTC
Source: https://github.com/robjhyndman/addb

Help Index


Australian fertility data

Description

Age-specific fertility rates and female child-bearing population for Australia.

Format

Object of class demogdata containing the following components:

year

Vector of years

age

Vector of ages

rate

List containing one matrix with one age group per row and one column per year.

pop

Population data in same form as rate.

type

Type of object. In this case, “fertility”.

label

Character string giving area from which data are taken. In this case, “Australia”.

Details

Australian fertility rates and populations (1921-2006) for single year age groups (15-49) as provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The population numbers for 2002 onwards differ slighly from those in the australia (mortality) object. The population numbers in aus.fertility have been updated to the latest ABS estimates.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

See Also

aus.fert in the demography package contains similar data in 5-year age groups.

Examples

plot(aus.fertility)

Mortality and population data

Description

Mortality rates and populations for Australia and Australian states. The data can be plotted and modelled using the functions in the demography package such as plot.demogdata and fdm.

Format

All data are demogdata objects containing the following components:

year

Years for which data available

age

Ages for which data available

rates

A list with matrix components female, male and total with one age group per row and one column per year.

pop

A list of the same form as rates but containing population numbers instead of mortality rates.

type

A character string equal to "mortality" in each case.

label

A character string giving the geographical region.

Details

The following data sets are included:

australia Australia (1901-2003)
nsw New South Wales (1901-2003)
vic Victoria (1901-2003)
qld Queensland (1901-2003)
sa South Australia (1901-2003)
wa Western Australia (1901-2003)
nt Northern Territory (1901-2003)
actot Australian Capital Territory and overseas territories (1901-2003)
tas Tasmania (1901-2003)

All data are from v3.2b of the Australian Demographic Data Bank released 10 February 2005.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

Source

Smith, L. (2009) The Australian Demographic Data Bank, 1901-2003: Populations [Computer File]. Canberra: Australian Social Science Data Archive, The Australian National University, 2009. Smith, L. (2009) The Australian Demographic Data Bank, 1901-2003: Deaths [Computer File]. Canberra: Australian Social Science Data Archive, The Australian National University, 2009.

Examples

plot(vic,years=1950:1997)