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lifetables: Lifetables

Description

Cohort life tables data as provided by SSA.

Usage

lifetables

Arguments

Format

A data frame with nine variables:

x

age in years

qx

probability of death at age x

lx

number of survivors, of birth cohort of 100,000, at next integral age

dx

number of deaths that would occur between integral ages

Lx

Number of person-years lived between x and x+1

Tx

Total number of person-years lived beyond age x

ex

Average number of years of life remaining for members of cohort alive at age x

sex

Sex

year

Year

For further details, see http://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Body.html#wp1168594