Population mortality rates for Denmark in 1-year age-classes.
The mortDK data frame has 1820 rows and 21 columns.
This data frame contains the following columns:
age: |
Age class, 0--89, 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. |
Statistics Denmark, National board of health provided original data. Michael Andersson grouped the causes of death.
data(mortDK)
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