aus.fert {demography}

Australian fertility data

Description

Age-specific fertility rates and female child-bearing population for Australia.

Format

Object of class demogdata containing the following components:

year

Vector of years

age

Vector of ages

rate

List containing one matrix with one age group per row and one column per year.

pop

Population data in same form as rate.

type

Type of object. In this case, “fertility”.

label

Character string giving area from which data are taken. In this case, “Australia”.

Details

Australian fertility rates and populations (1921-2002) for age groups (<20, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45+). Data taken from v3.2b of the Australian Demographic Data Bank released 10 February 2005.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

Source

The Australian Demographic Data Bank (courtesy of Len Smith).

Examples

plot(aus.fert)