Australian fertility data

Age-specific fertility rates and female child-bearing population for Australia.

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.

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”.

Source

The Australian Demographic Data Bank (courtesy of Len Smith).

Author

Rob J Hyndman

Examples

plot(aus.fert)