wmlung5070:
Lung cancer mortality data for white males,
1950-69 and 1970-94
Description
Counts and rates of lung cancer mortality data among white men by state, aggregated for 1950-1969 and 1970-1994
Format
A data frame with 51 observations, 1 for each state + DC,
on the following 5 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 1970
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. Note that the data
currently available on the NCI web site are from a
later data submission and so may differ slightly
(in first decimal place) from the rates provided here
due to corrections to the dataset after its first publication.
The name of each row is the state abbreviation - 2 characters.
This dataset is used by the micromapSEER examples using the border group of "USStatesDF".
References
Devesa SS, Grauman DJ, Blot WJ, Pennello GA, Hoover RN,
Fraumeni, JF Jr. Atlas of cancer mortality
in the United States: 1950-94, NIH Publication 99-4564,
Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute