Short Creek Population Data by Age Group

A dataset containing population information for the Short Creek area (Hildale city, Utah, Colorado City town, Arizona, and Centennial Park, Arizona) organized by age groups. IMPORTANT: This dataset is still under review. Please take any results with caution.

Usage

short_creek

Format

A data frame with 18 rows and 4 columns:

age_labels

character. Labels describing the age groups.

agepops

numeric. Population counts for each age group.

agelims

numeric. Age limit boundaries for each group.

vacc_rate

numeric. Vaccination rate for each age group.

Source

The data was generated using the multigroup.vaccine R package: Toth D (2025). multigroup.vaccine: Multigroup Vaccine Model. R package version 0.1.0, commit 54acee568fbb0666231ab59f19d33841337d7402, https://github.com/EpiForeSITE/multigroup-vaccine. The source code is available at https://github.com/UofUEpiBio/measles

Details

This dataset provides demographic information for the Short Creek area (Hildale city, Utah, Colorado City town, Arizona, and Centenial Park, Arizona), with population data disaggregated by 18 age categories. This dataset matches the short_creek_matrix matrix.

Examples

data(short_creek)
head(short_creek)
#>   age_labels agepops agelims vacc_rate
#> 1     under5     563       0 0.9300000
#> 2       5to9     569       5 0.9300000
#> 3   10to14s1     250      10 0.0640000
#> 4   10to14s2     350      10 0.3685714
#> 5   10to14s3     190      10 0.4210526
#> 6   15to19s4      86      15 0.2325581