idlmetadata {longevity}

IDL metadata

Description

This data frame contains country codes and the associated data collection period corresponding to the range for age at death.

Usage

idlmetadata

Format

A data frame with 21 rows and 4 variables:

country

factor, one of AUT (Austria), BEL (Belgium), CAN (Quebec), DEU (Germany), DNK (Denmark), ESP (Spain), FIN (Finland), FRA (France), JPN (Japan), NOR (Norway), SWE (Sweden), EAW (England and Wales) and USA (United States of America)

group

factor, either 105-109 for semi-supercentenarians or 110+ for supercentenarians"

ldate

Date, smallest death date

rdate

Date, latest death date

Details

Due to confidentiality restrictions, some data that were available in previous versions of the IDL for Switzerland, Italy and some entries for Japan and Belgium have been removed. As the IDL metadata are updated somewhat regularly and former versions of the database are not preserved, results from published analyses are replicable but not reproducible.

References

International Database on Longevity, extracted on February 13th, 2023