aus.fert

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

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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, &#8220;fertility&#8221;.</dd><dt>label</dt>
<dd>Character string giving area from which data are taken. In this case, &#8220;Australia&#8221;.</dd>
</dl>

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Australian fertility data — aus.fert

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, &#8220;fertility&#8221;.</dd>

<dt>label</dt>
<dd>Character string giving area from which data are taken. In this case, &#8220;Australia&#8221;.</dd>


</dl>

aus.fert: Australian fertility data

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