wflung00and95: Lung cancer mortality data for white females, 2000-4 and 1995-9
Description
Counts and rates of age-adjusted (2000 U.S. standard) lung cancer mortality data among white women, aggregated for 1995-9 and 2000-4.
Format
A data frame with 51 observations, 1 for each state + DC,
on the following 12 variables.
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.
The row names are the 2 character postal codes for the states.
The data represents the rates for two periods of time: 2000 to 2004 and 1995 to 1999.
This dataset is used in the micromapSEER examples using the border group of "USStatesDF".