USCancerRates: Rate of Death Due to Cancer in US Counties

Description

This data set records the annual rates of death (1999-2003) due to cancer by sex in US counties.

Usage

data(USCancerRates)

Arguments

source

http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/

Details

See the scripts directory for details of data preprocessing steps.

From the website: Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population [http://www.seer.cancer.gov/stdpopulations/stdpop.19ages.html]. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.

Examples

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