Urban-rural life tables for Scotland, 1861-1910

This data set contains the life tables the were computed for the study presented in: Torres, C., V. Canudas-Romo, and J. Oeppen (2019) 'The contribution of urbanization to changes in life expectancy in Scotland, 1861–1910', Population Studies, 73:3, 387-404, DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2018.1549746

The life tables are by sex and urban-rural category. For reasons explained in the paper, the tables cover periods of different lengths, from 1861 to 1910.

Example of how to load the data in R:

LT <- read.table("Urban-Rural-LifeTables-Scotland-1861-1910.txt", header = T, sep = ";")

Description of each column:
Period: time-interval, including the first and excluding the last indicated years (e.g., [1861,1866) corresponds to the years from 1861 to 1865). Available periods: 1861-1865, 1866-1870, 1871-1874, 1875-1877, 1878-1880, 1881-1885, 1886-1890, 1891-1892, 1893-1896, 1897-1900, 1901-1905, 1906-1910.
Population: Rural, Semi-Urban, Urban, or Total population (see definitions in Torres et al. 2019)
Sex: Female or Male
x : Age (from 0 to 110+, by single ages)
nmx: Death rate in the age interval [x, x+n)
nax: average number of person-years lived in the age interval [x, x+n) by those who die in that interval
nqx: Probability of dying in the age interval [x, x+n)
lx: number of survivors at exact age x, or probability of surviving until exact age x
ndx: Life-table deaths in the age interval [x, x+n)
nLx: Person-years lived in the age interval [x, x+n)
Tx: Person-years lived above age x
ex: Remaining life expectancy at age x

For more information about life tables in general, see: Preston, S., Heuveline, P., and Guillot, M. (2001). Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes. Wiley-Blackwell