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gmortDK: Population mortality rates for Denmark in 5-years age groups.

Description

The gmortDK data frame has 418 rows and 21 columns.

Arguments

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:
agr:
Age group, 0:0--4, 5:5--9,..., 90:90+.
per:
Calendar period, 38: 1938--42, 43: 1943--47, ..., 88:1988-92.
sex:
Sex, 1: male, 2: female.
risk:
Number of person-years in the Danish population.
dt:
Number of deaths.
rt:
Overall mortality rate in cases per 1000 person-years, i.e. rt=1000*dt/risk
Cause-specific mortality rates in cases per 1000 person-years:
r1:
Infections
r2:
Cancer.
r3:
Tumors, benign, unspecific nature.
r4:
Endocrine, metabolic.
r5:
Blood.
r6:
Nervous system, psychiatric.
r7:
Cerebrovascular.
r8:
Cardiac.
r9:
Respiratory diseases, excl. cancer.
r10:
Liver, excl. cancer.
r11:
Digestive, other.
r12:
Genitourinary.
r13:
Ill-defined symptoms.
r14:
All other, natural.
r15:
Violent.

Source

Statistics Denmark, National board of health provided original data. Michael Andersson grouped the causes of death.

See Also

thoro, mortDK

Examples

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