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An object of class "bage_ssvd" holding scaled SVD components derived from census data on school attendance. The attendance data is assembed by the United Nations Statistics Division. CSA holds 5 components.

Usage

CSA

Format

Object of class "bage_ssvd".

Versions:

  • "v2025" (default). Data downloaded on 2025-11-05

Source

Derived from data in the "Population 5 to 24 years of age by school attendance, sex and urban/rural residence" table from the Population Censuses' Datasets database assembled by the United Nations Statistics Division. Code to create CSA is in folder data-raw/ssvd_csa in the source code for the bage package.

Warning

Compared other age-sex patterns for other demographic processes such as mortality, age-sex patterns for school attendance show substantial variation across populations. More components may be needed to obtain satisfactory models of age-sex patterns for school attendance than for other processes.

See also

  • Scaled SVDs Overview of scaled SVDs implemented in bage

  • SVD() A prior based on a scaled SVD