Age-specific fertility rates and female child-bearing population for Australia.
Arguments
Format
Object of class demogdata containing the following components:
age
Vector of ages
rate
List containing one matrix with one age group per row and one column per year.
pop
Population data in same form as rate.
type
Type of object. In this case, “fertility”.
label
Character string giving area from which data are taken. In this case, “Australia”.
Author
Rob J Hyndman
Details
Australian fertility rates and populations (1921-2002) for age groups (<20, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45+).
Data taken from v3.2b of the Australian Demographic Data Bank released 10 February 2005.