R: Rate of Death Due to Cancer in US Counties

USCancerRates {latticeExtra} | R Documentation

## Rate of Death Due to Cancer in US Counties

### Description

This data set records the annual rates of death (1999-2003) due to cancer by sex in US counties.

### Usage

    data(USCancerRates)

### Format

A data frame with 3041 observations on the following 8 variables.

`rate.male`

  a numeric vector, giving rate of death per 100,000 due to cancer among males

`LCL95.male`

  a 95% lower confidence limit for `rate.male`

`UCL95.male`

  a 95% upper confidence limit for `rate.male`

`rate.female`

  a numeric vector, giving rate of death per 100,000 due to cancer among females

`LCL95.female`

  a 95% lower confidence limit for `rate.female`

`UCL95.female`

  a 95% upper confidence limit for `rate.female`

`state`

  a factor with levels giving name of US state

`county`

  a character vector giving county names, in a format similar to that used for county map boundaries in the `maps` package.

### Details

See the scripts directory for details of data preprocessing steps.

From the website: Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population [http://www.seer.cancer.gov/stdpopulations/stdpop.19ages.html]. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.

### Source

http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/

### Examples

    data(USCancerRates)

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