LifeExp {synthACS}

Life expectancy at certain ages; United States, 2013

Description

A dataset containing life expectancy at certain ages by race, hispanic origin and sex for the United States, 2013.

Usage

LifeExp

Format

A data.frame with 396 observations and 4 variables.

age

The exact age, in years, at which life expectany is calculated.

race

The racial group of the deceased One of all all races; white whites; black black / African-American; hispanic Hispanic; non.hisp.white non Hispanic whites; non.hispanic.black non Hispanic blacks.

gender

The gender of the deceased. One of c(both, male, female)

life_expectancy

The life expectancy for an individual at the exact age with the given race and gender.

Source

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm

References

Xu, J. Q., S. L. Murphy, and K. D. Kochanek. "Deaths: final data for 2013." National Vital Statistics Reports 64.2 (2015).