wpp2008 (version 1.0-1)

migration: Datasets on Migration

Description

Estimates and projections of male and female age-specific net migration.

Usage

data(migrationM) data(migrationF)

Arguments

Format

Data frames with one row per country and age group. For each country there are 21 age groups. It contains the following variables:
country
Country name.
country_code
Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.
age
A character string representing an age interval. For each country there are 21 values: “0-4”, “5-9”, “10-14”, “15-19”, “20-24”, “25-29”, “30-34”, “35-39”, “40-44”, “45-49”, “50-54”, “55-59”, “60-64”, “65-69”, “70-74”, “75-79”, “80-84”, “85-89”, “90-94”, “95-99”, and “100+” in that order.
1990-1995, 1995-2000, 2000-2005, ...
Net migration for the specific time period. Not available data are represented by an empty string.

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. Special Tabulations.

Examples

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data(migrationM)
str(migrationM)

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