rawDR {synthACS}

Raw Death Rate by race and gender

Description

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

Usage

rawDR

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)

death_rate

The raw death rate. See details.

Details

• The death rate is defined as deaths per 100,000 population.

• 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).