scania {eha}

Old age mortality, Scania, southern Sweden, 1813-1894.

Description

The data consists of old age life histories from 1 January 1813 to 31 december 1894. Only (parts of) life histories above age 50 is considered.

Usage

data(scania)

Format

A data frame with 1931 observations from 1931 persons on the following 9 variables.

id

Identification number (enumeration).

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).

sex

Gender, a factor with levels male female.

parish

One of five parishes in Scania, coded 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Factor.

ses

Socio-economic status at age 50, a factor with levels upper and lower.

immigrant

a factor with levels no region and yes.

Details

The Scanian area in southern Sweden was during the 19th century a mainly rural area.

Source

The Scanian Economic Demographic Database, Lund University, Sweden.

References

https://www.lusem.lu.se/organisation/research-centres/centre-economic-demography/centre-economic-demography-databases

Examples

data(scania)
summary(scania)