mortality3 {actLifer}

A sample mortality data

Description

A data extract taken from the CDC Wonder database.

Usage

mortality3

Format

A data frame with 170 rows of 4 columns representing the deaths and US population at each single-year age group for each sex with which we can use to make a life table. This data is from the year 2016.

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

gender

a categroical variable grouping the data into male and female

Source

<https://wonder.cdc.gov