R: Population mortality rates for Denmark in 1-year age-classes.

mortDK {Epi} | R Documentation

## Population mortality rates for Denmark in 1-year age-classes.

### Description

The `mortDK` data frame has 1820 rows and 21 columns.

### Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

`age`: | Age class, 0--89, 90:90+.
`per`: | Calendar period, 38: 1938--42, 43: 1943--47, ..., 88:1988-92.
`sex`: | Sex, 1: male, 2: female.
`risk`: | Number of person-years in the Danish population.
`dt`: | Number of deaths.
`rt`: | Overall mortality rate in cases per 1000 person-years, i.e. `rt=1000*dt/risk`
| Cause-specific mortality rates in cases per 1000 person-years:
`r1`: | Infections
`r2`: | Cancer.
`r3`: | Tumors, benign, unspecific nature.
`r4`: | Endocrine, metabolic.
`r5`: | Blood.
`r6`: | Nervous system, psychiatric.
`r7`: | Cerebrovascular.
`r8`: | Cardiac.
`r9`: | Respiratory diseases, excl. cancer.
`r10`: | Liver, excl. cancer.
`r11`: | Digestive, other.
`r12`: | Genitourinary.
`r13`: | Ill-defined symptoms.
`r14`: | All other, natural.
`r15`: | Violent.

### Source

Statistics Denmark, National board of health provided original data. Michael Andersson grouped the causes of death.

### See Also

`thoro`, `gmortDK`

### Examples

    data(mortDK)

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