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mortDK: Population mortality rates for Denmark in 1-year age-classes.

Description

The mortDK data frame has 1820 rows and 21 columns.

Arguments

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

age:Age class, 0--89, 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.

See Also

thoro, gmortDK

Examples

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