Age-specific fertility rates and female child-bearing population for Australia.
Format
Object of class demogdata containing the following
components:
- year
Vector of years
- 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”.
Details
Australian fertility rates and populations (1921-2006) for single year age
groups (15-49) as provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The
population numbers for 2002 onwards differ slighly from those in the
australia (mortality) object. The population numbers in
aus.fertility have been updated to the latest ABS estimates.
See also
aus.fert in the
demography package contains similar data in 5-year
age groups.
Examples
plot(aus.fertility)
