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eha (version 2.4-5)

scania:

Description

The data consists of old age life histories from 1 January 1813 to 31 december 1894. Only (parts of) life histories above age 50 is considered.

Usage

data(scania)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 1931 observations from 1931 persons on the following 9 variables.
id
Identification number (enumeration).
enter
Start age for the interval.
exit
Stop age for the interval.
event
Indicator of death; equals TRUE if the person died at the end of the interval, FALSE otherwise.
birthdate
Birthdate as a real number (i.e., "1765-06-27" is 1765.490).
sex
Gender, a factor with levels male female.
parish
One of five parishes in Scania, coded 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Factor.
ses
Socio-economic status at age 50, a factor with levels upper and lower.
immigrant
a factor with levels no region and yes.

Details

The Scanian area in southern Sweden was during the 19th century a mainly rural area.

References

http://www.ed.lu.se/databases

Examples

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data(scania)
summary(scania)

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