Projected US Population

Description

US population by age and sex, for 2000 through 2020

Format

The data is a matrix with dimensions age, sex, and calendar year. Age goes from 0 through 100, where the value for age 100 is the total for all ages of 100 or greater.

Details

This data is often used as a "standardized" population for epidemiology studies.

Source

NP2008_D1: Projected Population by Single Year of Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin for the United States: July 1, 2000 to July 1, 2050, www.census.gov/population/projections.

See Also

uspop

Examples

us50 <- uspop2[51:101,, "2000"]  #US 2000 population, 50 and over
age <- as.integer(dimnames(us50)[[1]])
smat <- model.matrix( ~ factor(floor(age/5)) -1)
ustot <- t(smat) %*% us50  #totals by 5 year age groups
temp <- c(50,55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95)
dimnames(ustot) <- list(c(paste(temp, temp+4, sep="-"), "100+"),
                         c("male", "female"))