aus.fert

Age-specific fertility rates and female child-bearing population for Australia.

data

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.

Rob Hyndman

demography

Forecasting mortality, fertility, migration and population data

aus.fert function

Object of class <code>demogdata</code> containing the following components:
<dl> <dt>age</dt><dd>Vector of ages</dd> <dt>rate</dt><dd>List containing one matrix with one age group per row and one column per year.</dd> <dt>pop</dt><dd>Population data in same form as <code>rate</code>.</dd> <dt>type</dt><dd>Type of object. In this case, &#147;fertility&#148;.</dd> <dt>label</dt><dd>Character string giving area from which data are taken. In this case, &#147;Australia&#148;.</dd> </dl>

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The Australian Demographic Data Bank (courtesy of Len Smith).

aus.fert: Australian fertility data

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