Central Death Rate

Adds a new column called CentralDeathRate to the dataset that was input. This column represents the central death rate of each age group - deaths/population.

Usage

central_death_rate(data, age, pop, deaths)

Arguments

data

The mortality dataset, includes an age grouping variable,

age

The age grouping variable, must be categorical

pop

Population of each age group, must be numeric

deaths

The midyear number of deaths at each age group, must be numeric

Value

Data frame that was input with an added CentralDeathRate column.

Examples

# This function adds a CentralDeathRate column to the dataset
central_death_rate(mortality2, "age_group", "population", "deaths")
#> # A tibble: 85 × 4
#>    age_group deaths population CentralDeathRate
#>    <chr>      <dbl>      <dbl>            <dbl>
#>  1 < 1 year   23161    3970145         0.00583 
#>  2 1 year      1568    3995008         0.000392
#>  3 2 years     1046    3992154         0.000262
#>  4 3 years      791    3982074         0.000199
#>  5 4 years      640    3987656         0.000160
#>  6 5 years      546    4032515         0.000135
#>  7 6 years      488    4029655         0.000121
#>  8 7 years      511    4029991         0.000127
#>  9 8 years      483    4159114         0.000116
#> 10 9 years      462    4178524         0.000111
#> # ℹ 75 more rows