burkina_faso_females.RData {popReconstruct}

Data for the Vignette burkina-faso-females

Description

Contains initial estimates of fertility, mortality, migration and population counts for the reconstruction of the female population of Burkina Faso from 1960–2000. See the vignette burkina-faso-females for an illustration of its use.

Usage

data(burkina_faso_females)

Format

The format is: chr "burkina-faso-females.RData"

Details

The dataset contains two lists.

burkina.faso.females has components:

fertility.rates

Matrix of initial estimates of average annual single-year age-specific fertility rates.

survival.proportions

Matrix of initial estimates of age-specific survival proportions.

migration.proportions

Matrix of initial estimates of age-specific average annual net migration as a proportion of the size of the same age-group in the receiving population.

baseline.pop.counts

Single column matrix of age-specific population counts in the baseline year (1960).

census.pop.counts

Matrix of age-specific census counts in years after the baseline year (1975, 1985, 1995, 2005).

burkina.faso.prop.vars has components fert.rate, surv.prop, mig.prop, population.count which contain variances for the Gaussian densities used as proposals in the random walk Metropolis-Hastings algorithm used to sample from the joint posterior.

Vignettes

burkina-faso-females

References

Wheldon, M. C., Raftery, A. E., Clark, S. J. and Gerland, P. (2011) Estimating Demographic Parameters with Uncertainty. Working Paper No. 108, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle. http://www.csss.washington.edu/Papers/wp108.pdf.

Examples

data(burkina_faso_females.RData)