person_years {actLifer}

Person Years Lived at Age x

Description

Adds a new column called PersonYears to the dataset that was input. PersonYears represents the number of years lived at age x based on the number surviving to age x.

Usage

person_years(data, age, pop, deaths)

Arguments

data

The mortality dataset, includes an age grouping variable,

age

The age grouping variable, must be categorical

pop

Population of each age group, must be numeric

deaths

The midyear number of deaths at each age group, must be numeric

Value

Dataset that was input with the added columns: ConditionalProbDeath, ConditionalProbLife, NumberToSurvive, PropToSurvive, PersonYears.

Examples

# This function will add the ConditionalProbDeath, ConditionalProbLife,
# NumberToSurvive, PropToSurvive, and PersonYears columns to the dataset
person_years(mortality2, "age_group", "population", "deaths")