A data extract taken from the CDC Wonder database.
Format
A data frame with 170 rows of 4 columns representing the deaths and US population at each single-year age group for each sex with which we can use to make a life table. This data is from the year 2016.
- age_group
Categorical variable identifying each age group
- deaths
the mid-year number of deaths in each age group
- population
the US population of each age group
- gender
a categroical variable grouping the data into male and female