population {dembase} | R Documentation

## Extract population counts from a demographic account.

### Description

A `demographic account` contains counts of population, plus one or more components such as births, deaths, or internal migration. `population` can be used to extract the population counts.

### Usage

    population(object)

    ## S4 method for signature 'DemographicAccount'
    population(object)

    ## S4 method for signature 'DemographicArray'
    population(object)

### Arguments

`object` | An object of class `DemographicAccount`.

### Value

A `Counts` object.

### See Also

Counts for components can be extracted using function `components`.

### Examples

    population <- Counts(array(c(10, 15, 13, 16),
                               dim = c(2, 2),
                               dimnames = list(age = c("0-29", "30+"),
                                               time = c(1970, 2000))))
    births <- Counts(array(13,
                           dim = c(1, 1),
                           dimnames = list(age = "30+",
                                           time = "1971-2000")))
    deaths <- Counts(array(c(0, 9),
                           dim = c(2, 1),
                           dimnames = list(age = c("0-29", "30+"),
                                           time = c("1971-2000"))))
    account <- Movements(population = population,
                         births = births,
                         exits = list(deaths = deaths))

    population(account)

[Package dembase version 0.0.0.119 Index]