wflung00cnty: Lung cancer mortality data for white females, by county, 2000-4
Description
Counts and rates of lung cancer mortality data among white women,
aggregated for 2000-4 by county.
Format
A data frame with 2577 observations on the following 6 variables.
- fips
- a numeric vector of 5 digit fips codes identifying the state and the county
- rate
- a numeric vector of age-adjusted rates by county during 2000-4 for white females
- count
- a numeric vector of the number of white female lung cancer deaths during 2000-4 by county
- pop
- a numeric vector of the white female population in the county during 2000
- stcode
- a numberic vector of the 2 digit state fips code
- stabr
- a character vector of the 2 character state postal code
Source
Surveillance Research Program, National Cancer Institute SEER*Stat
software (http://www.seer.cancer.gov/seerstat), November 2007
data submission, released April 2008. Data originally provided
to NCI by the National Center for Health Statistics.Details
The rates on this file are directly age adjusted to the US 2000
standard population and are expressed as the number of
deaths per 100,000 person-years. Counties with from 1 to 9 deaths are suppressed (deleted from the file).
This dataset is used by the micromapST examples.