Mean Age at Childbearing (MAC) — mac • demor

Mean Age at Childbearing (MAC)

Usage

mac(fx, age)

Arguments

fx: Numeric array of age specific fertility rates.
age: Numeric array of ages. For example, 15:55 for 1-year age-groups

Value

A length-1 numeric value giving the mean age at childbearing implied by fx.

Examples

age <- seq(15, 45, 5)
fx <- c(0.03, 0.10, 0.14, 0.12, 0.07, 0.03, 0.01)
mac(fx, age)
#> [1] 29.8