aus_mortalityR Documentation

Australian mortality data

Description

Weekly death counts and mortality rates in Australia.

Format

Time series of class 'tsibble'

Details

aus_mortality contains weekly data with two measured variables:

Deaths: Death count
Mortality: Mortality rate

from 2015 week 01 to 2023 week 12 for five different age groups plus the total, categorised by sex.

Each series is uniquely identified using three keys:

Sex: Sex of the individual: Male, Female, or Both
Age: Age group of the individual

The mortality rate is defined as the number of deaths per thousand people in Australia in each week.

Source

https://mortality.org/Data/STMF (Downloaded on 29 May 2024)

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