Datasets giving information on the baseyear and type of migration for each country. The 2012, 2015 and 2017 datasets also give information on country's specifics regarding mortality and fertility age patterns.
data(vwBaseYear2017)
data(vwBaseYear2015)
data(vwBaseYear2012)
data(vwBaseYear2010)
A data frame containing the following variables:
country_code
Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.
country
Country name. Not used by the package.
isSmall
UN internal code. Not used by the package.
ProjFirstYear
The base year of migration.
MigCode
Type of migration. Zero means migration is evenly distributed over each time interval. Code 9 means migration is captured at the end of each interval.
WPPAIDS
Dummy indicating if the country has generilized HIV/AIDS epidemics.
AgeMortalityType
Type of mortality age pattern. Only relevant for countries with the entry “Model life tables”. In such a case, the \(b_x\) Lee-Carter parameter is not estimated from historical data. Instead is taken from the dataset MLTbx
using a pattern given in the AgeMortalityPattern
column.
AgeMortalityPattern
If AgeMortalityType
is equal to “Model life tables”, this value determines which \(b_x\) is selected from the MLTbx
dataset. It must sorrespond to one of the rownames of MLTbx
, e.g. “CD East”, “CD West”, “UN Latin American”.
LatestAgeMortalityPattern
Dummy indicating if the \(a_x\) Lee-Carter parameter should be computed using observed data from the latest time period only.
SmoothLatestAgeMortalityPattern
If LatestAgeMortalityPattern
is 1, this column indicates if the \(a_x\) should be smoothed.
PasfrNorm
Type of norm for computing age-specific fertility patern to which the country belongs to. Currently only “GlobalNorm” is used.
PasfrGlobalNorm, PasfrFarEastAsianNorm, PasfrSouthAsianNorm
Dummies indicating which country to include to compute the specific norms.
There is one record for each country. See Sevcikova et al (2015) on how information from the various columns is used for projections.
H. Sevcikova, N. Li, V. Kantorova, P. Gerland and A. E. Raftery (2015). Age-Specific Mortality and Fertility Rates for Probabilistic Population Projections. arXiv:1503.05215. http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05215
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data(vwBaseYear2017)
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