scania {eha} | R Documentation

## Old age mortality, Scania, southern Sweden, 1813-1894.

### Description

The data consists of old age life histories from 1 January 1813 to 31 december 1894. Only (parts of) life histories above age 50 is considered.

### Usage

    data(scania)

### Format

A data frame with 1931 observations from 1931 persons on the following 9 variables.

`id`

  Identification number (enumeration).

`enter`

  Start age for the interval.

`exit`

  Stop age for the interval.

`event`

  Indicator of death; equals `TRUE` if the person died at the end of the interval, `FALSE` otherwise.

`birthdate`

  Birthdate as a real number (i.e., "1765-06-27" is 1765.490).

`sex`

  Gender, a factor with levels `male` `female`.

`parish`

  One of five parishes in Scania, coded 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Factor.

`ses`

  Socio-economic status at age 50, a factor with levels `upper` and `lower`.

`immigrant`

  a factor with levels `no` `region` and `yes`.

### Details

The Scanian area in southern Sweden was during the 19th century a mainly rural area.

### Source

The Scanian Economic Demographic Database, Lund University, Sweden.

### References

http://www.ed.lu.se/databases

### Examples

    data(scania)
    summary(scania)

[Package eha version 2.6.0 Index]