the reproductive age groups used for maternal mortality estimates

Maternal and pregnancy-related mortality quantities are conventionally defined over women of reproductive age, 15 to 49. This function is the single definition of those age groups, so that the respondent age distribution (get_ego_age_distn) and the age-specific estimates being aggregated (aggregate_maternal_estimates) cannot drift apart.

Usage

reproductive_age_groups()

Value

a character vector with the seven 5-year age group labels covering ages 15 through 49

Details

The labels match the ones produced by cut(..., right=FALSE) and by make.even.age.groups, which is what both the ego age categories (age.cat) and the estimate age groups (sib.age) use.

Examples

  reproductive_age_groups()
#> [1] "[15,20)" "[20,25)" "[25,30)" "[30,35)" "[35,40)" "[40,45)" "[45,50)"