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.
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