Age-specific mortality rates and population for France.
Arguments
Format
Object of class demogdata containing the following components:
year
Vector of years
age
Vector of ages
rate
List of matrices containing rates with with one age group per row and one column per year.
Matrices: total, female, male.
pop
Population data in same form as rate.
type
Type of object. In this case, “mortality”.
label
Character string giving area from which data are taken. In this case, “France”.
Author
Rob J Hyndman
Details
fr.mort contains French mortality rates and populations (1899-2005) for ages 0-110. Data taken from the Human Mortality Database
on 20 February 2008. fr.sm contains a smoothed version of fr.mort obtained using the smooth.demogdata function.