demogR (version 0.6.0)

goodman: Demographic data from Venezuela, Madagascar and the United States in the late 1960s

Description

Aggregate vital registration data for female from Venezuela (1965), Madagascar (1966), and the United States (1967) used in Goodman, Keyfitz, and Pullam (1974).

Usage

data(goodman)

Format

A data frame with 19 observations on the following 10 variables.

age

age classes

ven.nKx

mid-year population structure for Venezuela

ven.nDx

enumerated deaths for Venezuela

ven.bx

enumerated births for Venezuela

mad.nKx

mid-year population structure for Madagascar

mad.nDx

enumerated deaths for Madagascar

mad.bx

enumerated births for Madagascar

usa.nKx

mid-year population structure for the United States

usa.nDx

enumerated deaths for the United States

usa.bx

enumerated births for the United States

Details

Vital event data tabulated by Keyfitz and Flieger (1990) and used by Goodman et al. (1974) to illustrate their kinship frequency calculations. The three female populations represent tremendous diversity in age-specific demographic schedules. Venezuela (1965) is characterized by low mortality and high fertility; Madagascar (1966) is characterized by very high mortality and fertility, while the United States (1967) is characterized by low mortality and low fertility.

References

Keyfitz, N., and W. Flieger. 1990. World population growth and aging: Demographic trends in the late twentieth century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Goodman, L. A., N. Keyfitz, and T. W. Pullum. 1974. Family formation and the frequency of various kinship relationships. Theoretical Population Biology 5:1-27.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(goodman)
## Plot age-specific mortality rates for the three populations
with(goodman, plot(age, usa.nDx/usa.nKx, type="l", log="y", xlab="Age", ylab="nMx"))
with(goodman, lines(age, mad.nDx/mad.nKx, lty=2))
with(goodman, lines(age, ven.nDx/ven.nKx, lty=3))
legend("bottomright", c("USA","Madagascar","Venezuela"), lty=c(1,2,3))

# }