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Aggregate vital registration data from Venezuela (1965), Madagascar (1966), and the United States (1967) used in Goodman, Keyfitz, and Pullam (1974).
data(goodman)
A data frame with 19 observations on the following 10 variables.
age
ven.nKx
ven.nDx
ven.bx
mad.nKx
mad.nDx
mad.bx
usa.nKx
usa.nDx
usa.bx
Vital event data tabulated by Keyfitz and Flieger (1990) and used by Goodman et al. (1974) to illustrate their kinship frequency calculations. The three populations represent tremendous diversity in age-specific demographic schedules. Venezuela (1965) is characterized by low mortality and high fertility; Madagascar (1966) is characterized by very high mortality and fertility, while the United States (1967) is characterized by low mortality and low fertility.
Keyfitz and Flieger (1990), Goodman et al. (1974)
Keyfitz, N., and W. Flieger. 1990. World population growth and aging: Demographic trends in the late twentieth century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Goodman, L. A., N. Keyfitz, and T. W. Pullum. 1974. Family formation and the frequency of various kinship relationships. Theoretical Population Biology 5:1-27.
data(goodman) ## Plot age-specific mortality rates for the three populations with(goodman, plot(age, usa.nDx/usa.nKx, type="l", log="y", xlab="Age", ylab="nMx")) with(goodman, lines(age, mad.nDx/mad.nKx, lty=2)) with(goodman, lines(age, ven.nDx/ven.nKx, lty=3)) legend("bottomright", c("USA","Madagascar","Venezuela"), lty=c(1,2,3))