cdmltw {demogR}R Documentation

Coale-Demeny Model Life Tables

Description

Coale-Demeny regional model life tables

Usage

cdmltw(sex = "F")
cdmlte(sex = "F")
cdmlts(sex = "F")
cdmltn(sex = "F")

Arguments

sex

female or male life tables. Defaults to 'F' (female).

Details

Provides region-specific model life tables for 25 different levels of mortality, indexed by life expectancy at age 10 (with 1 being the lowest and 25 being the highest life expectancy at age 10).

The regions are West (cdmltw), East (cdmlte), South (cdmlts), and North (cdmltn).

Value

A list containing two 21 element vectors, one 25 element vector and eight 25 x 21 matrices: 25 mortality levels by 21 age classes. The eight matrices contain the standard columns of a life table for each mortality level:

age

the 21 age classes

width

widths of the 21 age classes

e10

the 25 mortality levels as life expectancy at age 10

lx

survival probabilities to exact age x

nqx

probabilities of death between ages x and x+n

nax

person-years lived by those dying between ages x and x+n

ndx

proportion of all deaths occurring between ages x and x+n

nLx

person-years lived in the interval x to x+n

nmx

central death rate in the interval x to x+n

Tx

person-years of life remaining to the cohort at age x

ex

life expectancy at age x

Author(s)

Kenneth Wachter, Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley.

Modified by James Holland Jones, Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University

Corrected by Jim Oeppen, Southern Denmark University, Odense, Denmark

References

Coale, A., P. Demeny, and B. Vaughn. 1983. Regional model life tables and stable populations. 2nd ed. New York: Academic Press.

See Also

life.table

Examples

## Generate West model life table family for females
Wf <- cdmltw()

## Plot survivorship for the 25 levels
plot(Wf$age,Wf$lx[1,], type="l", xlab="Age", ylab="Survivorship")
for(i in 2:25) lines(Wf$age, Wf$lx[i,])

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