Mortality and population data

Mortality rates and populations for Australia and Australian states. The data can be plotted and modelled using the functions in the demography package such as plot.demogdata and fdm.

Format

All data are demogdata objects containing the following components:

year

Years for which data available

age

Ages for which data available

rates

A list with matrix components female, male and total with one age group per row and one column per year.

pop

A list of the same form as rates but containing population numbers instead of mortality rates.

type

A character string equal to "mortality" in each case.

label

A character string giving the geographical region.

Source

Smith, L. (2009) The Australian Demographic Data Bank, 1901-2003: Populations [Computer File]. Canberra: Australian Social Science Data Archive, The Australian National University, 2009. Smith, L. (2009) The Australian Demographic Data Bank, 1901-2003: Deaths [Computer File]. Canberra: Australian Social Science Data Archive, The Australian National University, 2009.

Details

The following data sets are included:

australia	Australia	(1901-2003)
nsw	New South Wales	(1901-2003)
vic	Victoria	(1901-2003)
qld	Queensland	(1901-2003)
sa	South Australia	(1901-2003)
wa	Western Australia	(1901-2003)
nt	Northern Territory	(1901-2003)
actot	Australian Capital Territory and overseas territories	(1901-2003)
tas	Tasmania	(1901-2003)

All data are from v3.2b of the Australian Demographic Data Bank released 10 February 2005.

Author

Rob J Hyndman

Examples

plot(vic,years=1950:1997)