Old age mortality, Scania, southern Sweden, 1813-1894.
The data consists of old age life histories from 1 January 1813 to 31 december 1894. Only (parts of) life histories above age 50 is considered.
data(scania)
A data frame with 1931 observations from 1931 persons on the following 9 variables.
idIdentification number (enumeration).
enterStart age for the interval.
exitStop age for the interval.
eventIndicator of death;
equals TRUE if the person died
at the end of the interval, FALSE otherwise.
birthdateBirthdate as a real number (i.e., "1765-06-27" is 1765.490).
sexGender, a factor with levels male
female.
parishOne of five parishes in Scania, coded 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Factor.
sesSocio-economic status at age 50, a factor with
levels upper and lower.
immigranta factor with levels no region
and yes.
The Scanian area in southern Sweden was during the 19th century a mainly rural area.
The Scanian Economic Demographic Database, Lund University, Sweden.
data(scania) summary(scania)
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