vwBaseYear: Datasets on Migration Base Year and Type, and Mortality and Fertility Age Patterns

Description

Datasets giving information on the baseyear and type of migration for each country. The 2012 and 2015 datasets also give information on country's specifics regarding mortality and fertility age patterns.

Usage

data(vwBaseYear2015) data(vwBaseYear2012)  data(vwBaseYear2010)

Arguments

Format

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.

Source

Data provided by the United Nations Population Division.

Details

There is one record for each country. See Sevcikova et al (2015) on how information from the various columns is used for projections.

References

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

Examples

Run this code

data(vwBaseYear2015)
str(vwBaseYear2015)

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