French mortality data
Age-specific mortality rates and population for France.
Object of class demogdata containing the following components:
Vector of years
Vector of ages
List of matrices containing rates with with one age group per row and one column per year.
Matrices: total, female, male.
Population data in same form as rate.
Type of object. In this case, “mortality”.
Character string giving area from which data are taken. In this case, “France”.
fr.mort contains French mortality rates and populations (1899-2005) for ages 0-110. Data taken from the Human Mortality Database
on 20 February 2008. fr.sm contains a smoothed version of fr.mort obtained using the smooth.demogdata function.
Rob J Hyndman
The Human Mortality Database (http://www.mortality.org).
plot(fr.mort,years=1950:1997) plot(fr.mort,years=1990,type='p',pch=1) lines(fr.sm,years=1990)
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