adjDR {synthACS}

Age-adjusted Death Rate by race and gender

Description

A dataset containing age-adjusted death rate data by race and gender of the deceased. Data is provided for 1980-2013.

Usage

adjDR

Format

A data.frame with 612 observations and 4 variables.

year

The year for which data was was recorded.

race

The racial group of the deceased One of all all races; white whites; black_aa black / African-American; nat_amer American Indian or Native Alaskan; asian_isl Asian or Pacific Islander; hisp_lat Hispanic.

gender

The gender of the deceased. One of c(both, male, female)

adj_death_rate

The age-adjusted death rate. See details.

Details

• The age-adjusted death rates are used to compare relative mortality risks among groups and over time. They were computed by the direct method, which is defined

  R'= \sum_{i} \frac{P_{si}}{P_{s}}R_i

  where P_{si} is the standard population for age group i, P_s is the total US standard population and R_i is the raw death rate for age group i.

• Populations are based on census counts enumerated as of April 1 of the census year and estimated as of July 1 for non-census years.

Source

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm

References

Xu, J. Q., S. L. Murphy, and K. D. Kochanek. "Deaths: final data for 2013." National Vital Statistics Reports 64.2 (2015).