| dLH {Families} | R Documentation |
Individual fertility histories of members of a virtual population. Sample dataset.
Description
Fertility histories based on period data and in the presence of mortality. The histories are simulated from age-specific death rates and conditional fertility rates of USA 2021. The virtual population consists of 5 generations (with selected info on members of the sixth generation). The VirtualPop package is used to generate the population.
Usage
data(dLH,package="Families")
Format
A data frame with data of about 7,000 individuals (2000 in initial cohort).
- ID
Identification number
- gen
Generation
- cohort
Birth cohort
- sex
Sex. A factor with levels Males and Females
- bdated
Date of birth (decimal date)
- ddated
Date of death (decimal date)
- x_D
Age at death (decimal number)
- IDmother
ID of mother
- IDfather
ID of father
- jch
Child's line number in the household
- IDpartner
ID of partner
- udated
Date of union formation
- nch
Number of children ever born to woman
Source
The data for the simulation are period mortality rates by age and sex and period fertility rates by age and birth order for the United States 2021. The data are downloaded from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) and the Human Fertility Database (HFD).