library(ratetables)
us
| total United States population, by age and sex, 1960 to 1980. |
uswhite
| United States white population, by age and sex, 1950 to 1980. |
usr
| United States population, by age, sex and race, 1960 to 1980. Race is white, nonwhite, or black. For 1960 and 1970 the black population values were not reported separately, so the nonwhite values were used. |
mn
| total Minnesota population, by age and sex, 1970 and 1980. |
mnwhite
| Minnesota white population, by age and sex, 1960 to 1980. |
fl
| total Florida population, by age and sex, 1970 and 1980. |
flr
| Florida population, by age, sex and race, 1970-1980. Race is white, nonwhite, or black. For 1970 the black population values were not reported separately, so the nonwhite values were used. |
az
| total Arizona population, by age and sex, 1970 and 1980. |
azr
|
Arizona population, by age, sex and race, 1970-1980. Race is
white versus nonwhite. For 1970 the nonwhite population values
were not reported separately, so the white values were used.
Each of these tables contains the daily hazard rate for a matched subject from the population, defined as -log(1-q)/365.24 where q is the 1 year probability of death as reported in the original tables. For age 25 in 1970, for instance, p = 1-q is is the probability that a subject who becomes 25 years of age in 1970 will achieve his/her 26th birthday. The tables are recast in terms of hazard per day entirely for computational convenience. (The fraction .24 in the denominator is based on 24 leap years per century.) Each table is stored as an array, with additional attributes, and can be subset and manipulated as standard S arrays. Interpolation between calander years is done "on the fly" by the survexp routine. Judging from past experience, the 1990 data should become available in 1995 or 96. Some of the deficiencies, e.g. 1970 Arizona non-white, are a result of local conditions. The data probably exists, but we don't have a copy it in the library. |