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gmortDK

Population mortality rates for Denmark in 5-years age groups.


Description

The gmortDK data frame has 418 rows and 21 columns.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

agr: Age group, 0:0--4, 5:5--9,..., 90:90+.
per: Calendar period, 38: 1938--42, 43: 1943--47, ..., 88:1988-92.
sex: Sex, 1: male, 2: female.
risk: Number of person-years in the Danish population.
dt: Number of deaths.
rt: Overall mortality rate in cases per 1000 person-years, i.e. rt=1000*dt/risk
Cause-specific mortality rates in cases per 1000 person-years:
r1: Infections
r2: Cancer.
r3: Tumors, benign, unspecific nature.
r4: Endocrine, metabolic.
r5: Blood.
r6: Nervous system, psychiatric.
r7: Cerebrovascular.
r8: Cardiac.
r9: Respiratory diseases, excl. cancer.
r10: Liver, excl. cancer.
r11: Digestive, other.
r12: Genitourinary.
r13: Ill-defined symptoms.
r14: All other, natural.
r15: Violent.

Source

Statistics Denmark, National board of health provided original data. Michael Andersson grouped the causes of death.

See Also

Examples

data(gmortDK)

Epi

Statistical Analysis in Epidemiology

v2.44
GPL-2
Authors
Bendix Carstensen [aut, cre], Martyn Plummer [aut], Esa Laara [ctb], Michael Hills [ctb]
Initial release
2021-02-28

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