mortality {actLifer}

A sample mortality data

Description

A data extract takes from the CDC Wonder database.

Usage

mortality

Format

A data frame with 85 rows of 3 columns representing the US population at mulit-year different age groups with which we use to make a life table. This data is from the year 2018

age_group

Categorical variable identifying each age group

deaths

the mid-year number of deaths in each age group

population

the US population of each age group

Source

https://wonder.cdc.gov