Version: 1.0-1
Date: 2014-1-17
Title: World Population Prospects 2008
Author: Hana Sevcikova <hanas@uw.edu>, Patrick Gerland <gerland@un.org>
Maintainer: Hana Sevcikova <hanas@uw.edu>
Depends: R (≥ 2.14.2)
Description: Data from the United Nation's World Population Prospects 2008
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: http://esa.un.org/wpp/index.htm
Packaged: 2014-01-17 12:04:58 UTC; hana
NeedsCompilation: no
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2014-01-17 15:02:17

World Population Prospects 2008

Description

Data from the United Nations World Population Prospects 2008.

Details

Package: wpp2008
Version: 1.0-1
Date: 2014-1-17
Depends: R (>= 2.14.2)
License: GPL (>= 2)
URL: http://esa.un.org/wpp/index.htm

The package contains the following datasets:

Note

Distributions of net migrants by age and sex are provided for illustrative purpose only. Migration figures are based on intercensal net residuals and official statistics, population distribution by age and sex or simplified versions of Rogers-Castro migration age patterns, and incorporate statistical adjustment errors.

Author(s)

Hana Sevcikova <hanas@uw.edu>, Patrick Gerland <gerland@un.org>

Maintainer: Hana Sevcikova <hanas@uw.edu>

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. Special Tabulations.

See Also

wpp2010 and wpp2012 for more recent estimates and projections

United Nations Table of Locations

Description

United Nations table of locations, including regions, as available in 2008.

Usage

	data(UNlocations)

Format

A data frame with one observations per country or region. It contains the following seven variables:

name

Name of country or region (following ISO 3166 official short names in English - see
http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm and United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database - see http://unterm.un.org).

country_code

Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.

reg_code

Code of the regions.

reg_name

Name of the regions.

area_code

Area code.

area_name

Area names, such as Africa, Asia, Europe Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, Oceania, World.

location_type

Code giving the type of the observation (0=World, 2=Major Area, 3=Region, 4=Country/Area, 5=Development group, 12=Special groupings).

Source

Data provided by the United Nations Population Division

Examples

data(UNlocations)

United Nations Time Series of Life Expectancy

Description

Datasets containing the United Nations time series of the life expectancy (e0) for all countries of the world as available in 2008. Datasets e0F contains estimates for female historical e0; e0M contains estimates for male historical e0.

Usage

data(e0F)
data(e0M)

Format

The datasets contain one record per country or region. They contain the following variables:

country

Name of country or region (following ISO 3166 official short names in English - see http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm and United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database - see http://unterm.un.org).

country_code

Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.

1950-1955, 1955-1960, ...

Life expectancy in various five-year time intervals.

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(e0M)
head(e0M)

Datasets on Migration

Description

Estimates and projections of male and female age-specific net migration.

Usage

data(migrationM)
data(migrationF)

Format

Data frames with one row per country and age group. For each country there are 21 age groups. It contains the following variables:

country

Country name.

country_code

Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.

age

A character string representing an age interval. For each country there are 21 values: “0-4”, “5-9”, “10-14”, “15-19”, “20-24”, “25-29”, “30-34”, “35-39”, “40-44”, “45-49”, “50-54”, “55-59”, “60-64”, “65-69”, “70-74”, “75-79”, “80-84”, “85-89”, “90-94”, “95-99”, and “100+” in that order.

1990-1995, 1995-2000, 2000-2005, ...

Net migration for the specific time period. Not available data are represented by an empty string.

Note

Distributions of net migrants by age and sex are provided for illustrative purpose only. Migration figures are based on intercensal net residuals and official statistics, population distribution by age and sex or simplified versions of Rogers-Castro migration age patterns, and incorporate statistical adjustment errors.

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(migrationM)
str(migrationM)

Age-specific Mortality Data

Description

Age-specific data on mortality for male (mxM) and female (mxF).

Usage

data(mxM)
data(mxF)

Format

Data frames with one row per country and age group. For each country there are 22 age groups. It contains the following variables:

country

Country name.

country_code

Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.

age

A character string representing an age interval (given by the starting age of the interval). For each country there are 22 values: “0”, “1”, “5”, “10”, “15”, “20”, “25”, “30”, “35”, “40”, “45”, “50”, “55”, “60”, “65”, “70”, “75”, “80”, “85”, “90”, “95”, and “100+” in that order.

1950-1955, 1955-1960, ...

Mortality rate for the given time period. Not available data are represented by an empty string.

Source

This dataset is based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(mxF)
str(mxF)

Datasets on Age-specific Distribution of Fertility Rates

Description

Datasets giving the percentage of fertility rates over ages 15-50.

Usage

    data(percentASFR)

Format

A data frame with one row per country and age group. For each country there are seven age groups. It contains columns country, country_code, age and one columns per time interval.

Source

This dataset is based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(percentASFR)
str(percentASFR)

Estimates of Population Counts

Description

Datasets with age-specific male and female historical population estimates.

Usage

data(popM)
data(popF)

Format

Data frames with one row per country and age group. For each country there are 21 age groups. It contains the following variables:

country

Country name.

country_code

Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.

age

A character string representing an age interval. For each country there are 21 values: “0-4”, “5-9”, “10-14”, “15-19”, “20-24”, “25-29”, “30-34”, “35-39”, “40-44”, “45-49”, “50-54”, “55-59”, “60-64”, “65-69”, “70-74”, “75-79”, “80-84”, “85-89”, “90-94”, “95-99”, and “100+” in that order.

1950, 1955, ...

Population estimate for the given time.

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(popM)
str(popM)

Sex Ratio at Birth

Description

Estimates and projections of the sex ratio at birth derived as the number of female divided by the number of male.

Usage

    data(sexRatio)

Format

A data frame with one record per country. It contains columns country, country_code, and one columns per time interval.

Source

This dataset is based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(sexRatio)
str(sexRatio)

United Nations Time Series of Total Fertility Rate

Description

Datasets containing the United Nations time series of the total fertility rate (TFR) for all countries of the world as available in 2008.

Usage

data(tfr)

Format

The datasets contain one record per country or region. It contains the following variables:

country

Name of country or region (following ISO 3166 official short names in English - see http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm and United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database - see http://unterm.un.org).

country_code

Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.

1950-1955, 1955-1960, ...

TFR in various five-year time intervals.

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(tfr)
head(tfr)