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Infant Mortality in Sweden

Source: R/data.R
swe_infant.Rd

Counts of births and infant deaths in Sweden by county and year, 1995-2015

Usage

swe_infant

Format

A tibble with 441 rows and the following columns:

  • county: A factor with 21 levels, where the levels are ordered by number of births, from "Stockholm" down to "Gotland"

  • `time: Calendar year

  • births: Count of births

  • deaths: Count of infant deaths

Source

Database "Live births by region, mother's age and child's sex. Year 1968 - 2017" and database "Deaths by region, age (during the year) and sex. Year 1968 - 2017" on the Statistics Sweden website. Downloaded on 13 July 2018.

Details

Dataset used in Chapter 11 of the book Bayesian Demographic Estimation and Forecasting.

References

Bryant J and Zhang J. 2018. Bayesian Demographic Estimation and Forecasting. CRC Press.

See also