pennLC {SpatialEpi}

Pennsylvania Lung Cancer

Description

County-level (n=67) population/case data for lung cancer in Pennsylvania in 2002, stratified on race (white vs non-white), gender and age (Under 40, 40-59, 60-69 and 70+). Additionally, county-specific smoking rates.

Usage

pennLC

Format

List of 3 items

geo

a table of county IDs, longitude/latitude of the geographic centroid of each county

data

a table of county IDs, number of cases, population and strata information

smoking

a table of county IDs and proportion of smokers

spatial.polygon

an object of class SpatialPolygons

Source

Population data was obtained from the 2000 decennial census, lung cancer and smoking data were obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of Health website: https://www.health.pa.gov/Pages/default.aspx

Examples

data(pennLC)
pennLC$geo
pennLC$data
pennLC$smoking
# Map smoking rates in Pennsylvania
mapvariable(pennLC$smoking[,2], pennLC$spatial.polygon)