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demography (version 1.06)

Forecasting mortality, fertility, migration and population data

Description

Functions for demographic analysis including lifetable calculations; Lee-Carter modelling; functional data analysis of mortality rates, fertility rates, net migration numbers; and stochastic population forecasting.

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install.packages('demography')

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1.06

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Rob Hyndman

Last Published

October 14th, 2010

Functions in demography (1.06)

mean.demogdata

Mean and median functions for data of class demogdata
sex.ratio

Compute sex ratios from mortality rates
extract.years

Extract some years from a demogdata object
lifetable

Construct lifetables from mortality rates
life.expectancy

Estimate life expectancy from mortality rates
demography-package

Forecasting mortality and fertility data
combine.demogdata

Combine two demogdata objects into one demogdata object
fr.mort

French mortality data
set.upperage

Combine the upperages of a demogdata object.
plot.demogdata

Plot age-specific demographic functions
hmd.mx

Read demographic data from the Human Mortality Database
plot.fmforecast

Plot forecasts from a functional demographic modell
lca

Model mortality data using Lee-Carter approach
plot.fmres

Plot residuals from fitted demographic model
tfr

Compute total fertility rate from fertility rates
compare.demogdata

Evaluation of demographic forecast accuracy
demogdata

Create demogdata object from raw data matrices
residuals.fdm

Compute residuals and fitted values from functional demographic model or Lee-Carter model
netmigration

Calculate net migration from mortality and fertility data
extract.ages

Extract some ages from a demogdata object
isfe

Integrated Squared Forecast Error for models of various orders
forecast.fdmpr

Forecast coherent functional demographic model.
read.demogdata

Read demographic data and construct demogdata object
simulate.fmforecast

Simulate future sample paths from functional demographic model forecasts.
median

Median
pop.sim

Population simulation
summary.fdm

Summary for functional demographic model or Lee-Carter model
cm.spline

Monotonic interpolating splines
fdm

Functional demographic model
plot.lifetable

Plot life expectancy from lifetable
forecast.lca

Forecast demogdata data using Lee-Carter method.
aus.fert

Australian fertility data
models

Show model information for the forecast coefficients in FDM models.
coherentfdm

Coherent functional demographic model for grouped data
forecast.fdm

Forecast functional demographic model.
smooth.demogdata

Create smooth demogdata functions
plot.errorfdm

Plot differences between actuals and estimates from fitted demographic model