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Adds a new column called PersonYears to the dataset that was input. PersonYears represents the number of years lived at age x based on the number surviving to age x.

Usage

person_years(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

Dataset that was input with the added columns: ConditionalProbDeath, ConditionalProbLife, NumberToSurvive, PropToSurvive, PersonYears.

Examples

# This function will add the ConditionalProbDeath, ConditionalProbLife,
# NumberToSurvive, PropToSurvive, and PersonYears columns to the dataset
person_years(mortality2, "age_group", "population", "deaths")
#> # A tibble: 85 × 8
#>    age_group deaths population ConditionalProbDeath ConditionalProbLife
#>    <chr>      <dbl>      <dbl>                <dbl>               <dbl>
#>  1 < 1 year   23161    3970145             0.00582                0.994
#>  2 1 year      1568    3995008             0.000392               1.00 
#>  3 2 years     1046    3992154             0.000262               1.00 
#>  4 3 years      791    3982074             0.000199               1.00 
#>  5 4 years      640    3987656             0.000160               1.00 
#>  6 5 years      546    4032515             0.000135               1.00 
#>  7 6 years      488    4029655             0.000121               1.00 
#>  8 7 years      511    4029991             0.000127               1.00 
#>  9 8 years      483    4159114             0.000116               1.00 
#> 10 9 years      462    4178524             0.000111               1.00 
#> # ℹ 75 more rows
#> # ℹ 3 more variables: NumberToSurvive <dbl>, PropToSurvive <dbl>,
#> #   PersonYears <dbl>