demCore

Common core functions for demographic methods. Includes basic demography calculations such as:

• Mortality: life table composition
• Fertility: TFR, ASFR
• Population: CCMPP, Leslie matrices

Installation

This package has not yet been published on CRAN, but can be installed from GitHub using the remotes package. Installation of the hierarchyUtils package is also required.

remotes::install_github("ihmeuw-demographics/hierarchyUtils")
remotes::install_github("ihmeuw-demographics/demCore")

Getting help

demCore function documentation and vignettes can be found at https://ihmeuw-demographics.github.io/demCore/index.html

If you encounter a clear bug, missing documentation, or a feature you’d like to see implemented please file an issue on github with the information requested in the issue template.

Contributing

See the contributing guidelines for more information.

Additional resources

Much of the content in this package comes from well established demographic methods, as reported in the following book:

Preston Samuel H, Patrick H, Michel G. Demography: measuring and modeling population processes. MA: Blackwell Publishing. 2001.