oldmort {eha} | R Documentation

## Old age mortality, Sundsvall, Sweden, 1860-1880.

### Description

The data consists of old age life histories from 1 January 1860 to 31 december 1880, 21 years. Only (parts of) life histories above age 60 is considered.

### Usage

    data(oldmort)

### Format

A data frame with 6508 observations from 4603 persons on the following 13 variables.

`id`

  Identification number.

`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).

`m.id`

  Mother's identification number.

`f.id`

  Father's identification number.

`sex`

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

`civ`

  Civil status, a factor with levels `unmarried` `married` `widow`

`ses.50`

  Socio-economic status at age 50, a factor with levels `middle` `unknown` `upper` `farmer` `lower`

`birthplace`

  a factor with levels `parish` `region` `remote`

`imr.birth`

  Infant mortality rate at birth in the region of birth

`region`

  Subregion of Sundsvall, a factor with levels `town` `industry` `rural`

### Details

The Sundsvall area in mid-Sweden was during the 19th century a fast growing forest industry. At the end of the century, it was one of the largest sawmill area in Europe. The town Sundsvall is fast growing part of the region and center for the commerse.

### Source

The Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, Sweden.

### References

Edvinsson, S. (2000). The Demographic Data Base at Umeå University: A resource for historical studies. In Hall, McKaa, and Thorvaldsen (eds), "Handbook of International Historical Microdata for Population Research", Minnesota Population Center, Minneapolis.

### Examples

    data(oldmort)
    summary(oldmort)
    ## maybe str(oldmort) ; plot(oldmort) ...

[Package eha version 2.6.0 Index]