aus_fertility {vital}

Australian fertility data

Description

aus_fertility is an annual vital object covering the years 1921-2002 with three values:

Fertility:	Fertility rate per woman
Exposure:	Population of women at 30 June each year
Births:	Number of births

Format

Time series of class vital

Details

The data is disaggregated using one key:

Age:	Age of mother at time of birth

The extreme age groups (15 and 49) also include a few younger and older mothers respectively.

Source

Australian Human Mortality Database. https://aushd.org

Examples

library(ggplot2)
aus_fertility
aus_fertility |>
  autoplot(Fertility) +
  ylab("Fertility rate")