LSDeaths {RII}R Documentation

ONS Longitudinal Study Mortality Data

Description

Some mortality data from the UK Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (LS), taken from Sergeant and Firth (2004). The data pertain to males in the LS aged 25-64 at the 1991 UK census who were still alive and present on 1 January 1996. The number of deaths in the period 1 January 1996 to 31 December 2000 and the number of individuals at risk at the start of the period (i.e. the number that died plus the number that survived) are cross-classified by social class and age, both recorded at the 1991 census. Age is given in ten-year intervals and the Registrar General's social classification is used, which groups individuals in a graded hierarchy of occupations according to skill as follows:

Social class Description
V Unskilled Occupations
IV Partly-Skilled Occupations
IIIM Skilled Manual Occupations
IIIN Skilled Non-manual Occupations
II Managerial and Technical Occupations
I Professional Occupations

Usage

data(LSDeaths)

Format

A data frame with 24 rows.

References

Sergeant, J. C. and Firth D. (2004) Relative index of inequality: definition, estimation and inference. In preparation


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