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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.

Usage

wflung00cnty

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 2577 observations on the following 6 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. Counties with from 1 to 9 deaths are suppressed (deleted from the file). This dataset is used by the micromapSEER examples using the border group of "USStatesDF".

References

FIP 6-4 Codes