goodman {demogR}R Documentation

Demographic data from Venezuela, Madagascar and the United States in the late 1960s

Description

Aggregate vital registration data from Venezuela (1965), Madagascar (1966), and the United States (1967) used in Goodman, Keyfitz, and Pullam (1974).

Usage

data(goodman)

Format

A data frame with 19 observations on the following 10 variables.

age
age classes
ven.nKx
mid-year population structure for Venezuela
ven.nDx
enumerated deaths for Venezuela
ven.bx
enumerated births for Venezuela
mad.nKx
mid-year population structure for Madagascar
mad.nDx
enumerated deaths for Madagascar
mad.bx
enumerated births for Madagascar
usa.nKx
mid-year population structure for the United States
usa.nDx
enumerated deaths for the United States
usa.bx
enumerated births for the United States

Details

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.

Source

Keyfitz and Flieger (1990), Goodman et al. (1974)

References

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.

Examples

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))


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