MortalityGaps.data {MortalityGaps}R Documentation

DATA - for testing purposes

Description

Dataset containing records of life expectancy at birth and at age 65 for female and male populations living in 38 countries between 1950 and 2014. This dataset is used in Pascariu et al. (2018) article. The data is provided in the package for testing purposes and to ensure the reproducibility of the results and figures published in the article. By the time you are using this package, the data might be outdated. Download actual demographic data free of charge from Human Mortality Database (2017). Once a username and a password is created on the website the MortalityLaws R package can be used to extract data directly into your R console.

Usage

MortalityGaps.data

Format

An object of class MortalityGaps.data of length 2.

Source

Human Mortality Database

References

Human Mortality Database (2017). “University of California, Berkeley (USA), and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany). Data downloaded on 10/06/2017.” https://www.mortality.org.

Pascariu MD (2018). MortalityLaws: Parametric Mortality Models, Life Tables and HMD. R package version 1.6.0, https://github.com/mpascariu/MortalityLaws.

Pascariu MD, Canudas-Romo V, Vaupel JW (2018). “The double-gap life expectancy forecasting model.” Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 78, 339–350. doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2017.09.011.

See Also

ReadHMD


[Package MortalityGaps version 1.0.7 Index]