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demography

The R package demography provides functions for demographic analysis including: lifetable calculations; Lee-Carter modelling; functional data analysis of mortality rates, fertility rates, net migration numbers; and stochastic population forecasting.

Installation

You can install the stable version on R CRAN.

install.packages('demography', dependencies = TRUE)

You can also install the development version from Github

# install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("robjhyndman/demography")

License

This package is free and open source software, licensed under GPL (>= 3).

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install.packages('demography')

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2.0

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Repository

https://github.com/robjhyndman/demography

Homepage

https://pkg.robjhyndman.com/demography/

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Last Published

February 8th, 2023

Functions in demography (2.0)

Extract some years from a demogdata object

Coherent functional demographic model for grouped data

Create demogdata object from raw data matrices

Functional demographic model

life.expectancy

Estimate life expectancy from mortality rates

Construct lifetables from mortality rates

demography-package

Forecasting mortality and fertility data

Integrated Squared Forecast Error for models of various orders

Model mortality or fertility data using Lee-Carter approach

Plot life expectancy from lifetable

Read data from HMD and construct a mortality demogdata object

Forecast functional demographic model.

Population simulation

French mortality data

Plot age-specific demographic functions

Forecast demogdata data using Lee-Carter method.

Show model information for the forecast coefficients in FDM models.

Forecast coherent functional demographic model.

Mean and median functions for data of class demogdata

Calculate net migration from mortality and fertility data

plot.fmforecast

Plot forecasts from a functional demographic modell

Plot differences between actuals and estimates from fitted demographic model

Combine the upperages of a demogdata object.

Updating functional demographic models and coherent functional demographic models.

Read demographic data and construct demogdata object

Compute sex ratios from mortality rates

Compute residuals and fitted values from functional demographic model or Lee-Carter model

simulate.fmforecast

Simulate future sample paths from functional demographic model forecasts.

Summary for functional demographic model or Lee-Carter model

Compute total fertility rate from fertility rates

smooth.demogdata

Create smooth demogdata functions

as.data.frame.demogdata

Coerce a demogdata object to a data.frame object

combine.demogdata

Combine two demogdata objects into one demogdata object

Monotonic interpolating splines

Australian fertility data

Extract some ages from a demogdata object

compare.demogdata

Evaluation of demographic forecast accuracy