PMDrho {MortCast}

Pattern Mortality Decline Lookup Tables

Description

Data object containing two tables with \rho coefficients for the Pattern Mortality Decline method as implemented in the pmd function.

Usage

data(PMDrho)

Format

Using data(PMDrho) loads two objects into memory: RhoFemales and RhoMales. They both are data frames with 22 rows corresponding to age groups, and 17 columns corresponding to different levels of life expectancy in 5-years intervals (from 50 to 135). The names of the columns reflect the middle of the respective interval.

References

Andreev, K. Gu, D., Gerland, P. (2013). Age Patterns of Mortality Improvement by Level of Life Expectancy at Birth with Applications to Mortality Projections. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA. https://paa2013.princeton.edu/papers/132554.

Gu, D., Pelletier, F. and Sawyer, C. (2017). Projecting Age-sex-specific Mortality: A Comparison of the Modified Lee-Carter and Pattern of Mortality Decline Methods, UN Population Division, Technical Paper No. 6. New York: United Nations. https://population.un.org/wpp/Publications/Files/WPP2017_TechnicalPaperNo6.pdf

See Also

pmd

Examples

data(PMDrho)
head(RhoFemales)
head(RhoMales)

# plot a few male patterns
e0lev <- colnames(RhoMales)[c(1, 5, 9, 13, 17)]
plot(RhoMales[, e0lev[1]], type="l", log="y", ylim=range(RhoMales[,e0lev]),
    ylab="male rho", xlab="Age")
for(i in 2:length(e0lev)) lines(RhoMales[,e0lev[i]], lty = i)
legend("bottomleft", legend = e0lev, lty = 1:length(e0lev), bty= "n")