write.projection.summary: Writing Projection Summary Files

Description

The function creates two files containing projection summaries, such as the median, the lower and upper bound of the 80 and 90% probability intervals, respectively, the +/- 0.5 child variant and the constant variant. One file is in a user-friendly format, whereas the other is in a UN-specific format with internal coding of the time and the variants. In addition, a file containing some of the model parameters is created.

Usage

write.projection.summary(dir = file.path(getwd(), "bayesTFR.output"), 
    output.dir = NULL, revision = 14)

Arguments

dir

Directory containing the prediction object. It should correspond to the output.dir argument of the tfr.predict function.

output.dir

Directory in which the resulting file will be stored. If NULL the same directory is used as for the prediction.

revision

UN revision number. Used as a constant in the second file only.

file

projection_summary.csv
projection_summary_parameters.csv

itemize

country_name:

item

VarID:
LocID:
TimeID:
TFR:
country_code:
TF_time_start_decline:
TF_max:
TF_max_decrement:
TF_end_level:
TF_end_level_low:
TF_end_level_high:
TF_time_end_decline:

code

UN_time

eqn

$\Delta_{c4}$

Details

The first file that the function creates is called projection_summary_user_friendly.csv, it is a comma-separated table with the following columns:

country_name:

{country name} country_code:{country code} variant:{name of the variant, such as median, lower 80, upper 80, lower 95, upper 95, -0.5child, +0.5child, constant} period1:{e.g. 2005-2010: TFR for the first time period} period2:{e.g. 2010-2015: TFR for the second time period} ...{further columns with TFR projections}