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.
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".