LSDeaths                 package:RII                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Some mortality data from the UK Office for National Statistics
     Longitudinal Study (LS), taken from Sergeant and Firth (2004). 
     The data pertain to males in the LS aged 25-64 at the 1991 UK
     census who were still alive and present on 1 January 1996.  The
     number of deaths in the period 1 January 1996 to 31 December 2000
     and the number of individuals at risk at the start of the period
     (i.e. the number that died plus the number that survived) are
     cross-classified by social class and age, both recorded at the
     1991 census.  Age is given in ten-year intervals and the Registrar
     General's social classification is used, which groups individuals
     in a graded hierarchy of occupations according to skill as
     follows:

       Social class  Description
       V             Unskilled Occupations
       IV            Partly-Skilled Occupations
       IIIM          Skilled Manual Occupations
       IIIN          Skilled Non-manual Occupations
       II            Managerial and Technical Occupations
       I             Professional Occupations

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(LSDeaths)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 24 rows.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Sergeant, J. C. and Firth D. (2004)  Relative index of inequality:
     definition, estimation and inference.  In preparation

