Weekly death counts and mortality rates in Australia.
Source
https://mortality.org/Data/STMF (Downloaded on 29 May 2024)
Details
aus_mortality contains weekly data with two measured variables:
Deaths: | Death count |
Mortality: | Mortality rate |
from 2015 week 01 to 2023 week 12 for five different age groups plus the total, categorised by sex.
Each series is uniquely identified using three keys:
Sex: | Sex of the individual: Male, Female, or Both |
Age: | Age group of the individual |
The mortality rate is defined as the number of deaths per thousand people in Australia in each week.
Examples
aus_mortality
#> # A tsibble: 7,740 x 5 [1W]
#> # Key: Sex, Age [18]
#> Week Sex Age Deaths Mortality
#> <week> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 2015 W01 Both 0-14 31.1 0.000360
#> 2 2015 W02 Both 0-14 29.0 0.000334
#> 3 2015 W03 Both 0-14 27.5 0.000318
#> 4 2015 W04 Both 0-14 27.8 0.000321
#> 5 2015 W05 Both 0-14 26.0 0.000300
#> 6 2015 W06 Both 0-14 28.5 0.000330
#> 7 2015 W07 Both 0-14 29.4 0.000339
#> 8 2015 W08 Both 0-14 31.2 0.000361
#> 9 2015 W09 Both 0-14 27.9 0.000322
#> 10 2015 W10 Both 0-14 29.0 0.000334
#> # ℹ 7,730 more rows