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propop: Project Population Growth in Switzerland Using the Cohort Component Method

Project the development of the population at different spatial levels (e.g., cantons, districts, municipalities) using the cohort component method, broken down by 101 one-year age classes, gender, and nationality (see e.g. Preston et al. (2000, ISBN: 978-1-557-86451-2)). Includes helper functions to download required population data and projection parameters as open data for Switzerland, plus tools for model evaluation against benchmarks such as population records or a base model.

Version: 2.2.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: assertthat, BFS, cli, curl, dplyr, stringi, tidyr, vctrs, progressr, purrr
Suggests: devtools, DT, ggplot2, htmltools, tibble, knitr, rmarkdown, stringr, testthat, rlang, lifecycle, colorspace
Published: 2026-11-12
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.propop (may not be active yet)
Author: Norah Efosa [aut, cre], Adrian Gadient ORCID iD [aut], Tina Cornioley [aut], Jan Wunder [aut], Niklas Haffert [aut], Andrea Plüss [ctb], Nadine Herrmann [ctb], Lutz Benson [ctb], Eric Meyer [ctb], Thomas Knecht [ctb], Moana Stadelmann [ctb], Statistik Aargau [fnd, cph]
Maintainer: Norah Efosa <norah.efosa at ag.ch>
BugReports: https://github.com/statistik-aargau/propop/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://statistik-aargau.github.io/propop/
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: propop citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: propop results

Documentation:

Reference manual: propop.html , propop.pdf
Vignettes: Evaluate projections (source, R code)
Prepare data (source, R code)
Projections for a single region (source, R code)
Projections for subregions (source, R code)

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Package source: propop_2.2.1.tar.gz
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