SpatialEpi (version 1.1)

pennLC: Pennsylvania Lung Cancer

Description

County-level (n=67) population/case data for lung cancer in Pennsylvania in 2002, stratified on race (white vs non-white), gender and age (Under 40, 40-59, 60-69 and 70+). Additionally, county-specific smoking rates.

Usage

data(pennLC)

format

List of 3 items: ll{ geo a table of county IDs, longitude/latitude of the geographic centroid of each county data a table of county IDs, number of cases, population and strata information smoking a table of county IDs and proportion of smokers spatial.polygon an object of class SpatialPolygons (See SpatialPolygons-class) }

source

Population data was obtained from the 2000 decennial census, lung cancer and smoking data were obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of Health website: http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/

See Also

scotland, NYleukemia

Examples

data(pennLC)
pennLC$geo
pennLC$data
pennLC$smoking

# Map smoking rates in Pennsylvania
mapvariable(pennLC$smoking[,2], pennLC$spatial.polygon)