Lifetable function

Life Table

Estimates a lifetable from mortality rates and population data.

Lifetable(
  rates,
  pops,
  sex,
  max_age = NULL,
  first_year,
  threshold,
  jump,
  element = c("mx", "qx", "lx", "dx", "Lx", "Tx", "ex", "rx"),
  ...
)

Arguments

• rates: character. A character string that specifies mortality data path. The dataset is a .txt file like CR_mortality_rates_2010_2015.
• pops: character. A character string that specifies population data path. The dataset is a .txt file like CR_populations_1950_2015.
• sex: character. "female" or "male".
• max_age: numeric. Desire omega age. If NULL, Lifetable function takes the dataset's maximum age.
• first_year: numeric. First year to start estimation.
• threshold: numeric. Maximum forecast year.
• jump: character. Same purpose to jumpchoice argument in forecast function.
• element: character. Wanted estimation element, one of "mx", "qx", "lx", "dx", "Lx", "Tx", "ex" or "rx".
• ...: additional arguments to be passed to read.demogdata, such as label.

Returns

Lifetable function returns a list with both data frames, wide and long format, for specified element in argument element for desire years.

Examples

## Not run:

 write.table(CR_mortality_rates_2010_2015,
 file = "CR_mortality_rates_2010_2015.txt",
 sep = "\t", row.names = FALSE, quote = FALSE)

 write.table(CR_populations_1950_2015,
 file = "CR_populations_1950_2015.txt",
 sep = "\t", row.names = FALSE, quote = FALSE)

 Lifetable("CR_mortality_rates_2010_2015.txt", "CR_populations_1950_2015.txt",
 sex="female", first_year=2011, threshold=2150, jump="actual", max_age = 100,
 element="ex", label="CR")
## End(Not run)

References

Rdpack::insert_ref(key="Lifetable",package="popstudy")

Author(s)

Cesar Gamboa-Sanabria