oldmort {eha}

Old age mortality, Sundsvall, Sweden, 1860-1880.

Description

The data consists of old age life histories from 1 January 1860 to 31 december 1880, 21 years. Only (parts of) life histories above age 60 is considered.

Usage

data(oldmort)

Format

A data frame with 6508 observations from 4603 persons on the following 13 variables.

id

Identification number.

enter

Start age for the interval.

exit

Stop age for the interval.

event

Indicator of death; equals TRUE if the person died at the end of the interval, FALSE otherwise.

birthdate

Birthdate as a real number (i.e., "1765-06-27" is 1765.490).

m.id

Mother's identification number.

f.id

Father's identification number.

sex

Gender, a factor with levels male female

civ

Civil status, a factor with levels unmarried married widow

ses.50

Socio-economic status at age 50, a factor with levels middle unknown upper farmer lower

birthplace

a factor with levels parish region remote

imr.birth

Infant mortality rate at birth in the region of birth

region

Subregion of Sundsvall, a factor with levels town industry rural

Details

The Sundsvall area in mid-Sweden was during the 19th century a fast growing forest industry. At the end of the century, it was one of the largest sawmill area in Europe. The town Sundsvall is fast growing part of the region and center for the commerse.

Source

The Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, Sweden.

References

Edvinsson, S. (2000). The Demographic Data Base at Umeå University: A resource for historical studies. In Hall, McKaa, and Thorvaldsen (eds), "Handbook of International Historical Microdata for Population Research", Minnesota Population Center, Minneapolis.

Examples

data(oldmort)
summary(oldmort)
## maybe str(oldmort) ; plot(oldmort) ...