USAge: US national population estimates
Description
US national population estimates by age and sex from 1900 to 1979.
The data is available both as a (3-dimensional) table and a data
frame. The second form omits the 75+ age group to keep age numeric.Usage
data(USAge.table)
data(USAge.df)
source
http://www.census.gov/popest/archives/pre-1980/PE-11.html
U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division. Internet Release date:
October 1, 2004 The data were available as individual files for year, with varying
levels for the margins. The preprocessing steps used to reduce the
data to the form given here are described in the scripts directory.
Details
The data for 1900-1929 are rounded to thousands. The data for
1900-1939 exclude the Armed Forces overseas and the population
residing in Alaska and Hawaii. The data for 1940-1949 represent the
resident population plus Armed Forces overseas, but exclude the
population residing in Alaska and Hawaii. The data for 1950-1979
represent the resident population plus Armed Forces overseas, and
also include the population residing in Alaska and Hawaii.