demography (version 1.02)

hmd.mx: Read Mx demographic data from the Human Mortality Database

Description

Reads "Mx" (1x1) data from the Human Mortality Database (http://www.mortality.org) and constructs a demogdata object suitable for plotting using plot.demogdata and fitting an LC or BMS model using lca or an FDA model using fdm.

Usage

hmd.mx(country, username, password, label = country)

Arguments

country

Directory abbreviation from the HMD. For instance, Australia = "AUS".

username

HMD username

password

HMD password

label

Character string giving name of country from which the data are taken.

Value

• Object of class demogdata with the following components:
• year
  Vector of years
• age
  Vector of ages
• rate
  A list containing one or more rate matrices with one age group per row and one column per year.
• pop
  A list of the same form as rate but containing population numbers instead of demographic rates.
• type
  Type of object: mortality, fertility or migration.
• label
  label

Details

In order to read the data, users are required to create their account via the HMD website (http://www.mortality.org), and obtain a valid username and password.

See Also

demogdata,read.demogdata

Examples

norway <- hmd.mx("NOR", username, password, "Norway")
summary(norway)