Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 1998 Title: U.S. Mortality Database Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Description: Abstract: This data set contains mortality information for United States Health Service Areas (805 groups of counties). Included are mortality rates by sex and race (white and black) for the 11 leading causes of death, 8 subset causes, and all causes combined, for 1988-1992. Age-adjusted rates are presented along with indicators of whether each rate is considered reliable and whether it is significantly different from the corresponding U.S. rate. Purpose: The digital data sets are used to create electronic and hard copy maps that depict various aspects of the nation. The data can be used to conduct geographic analysis on National and large regional scales. The digital data will provide a basis from which future revisions of the atlas can be derived. Supplemental_Information: This data comes from Pickle LW, Mungiole M, Jones GK, White AA. Atlas of United States Mortality. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Publication. No. (PHS) 97-1015. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 1996. Additional information may be obtained from the home page of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/ The user is cautioned not to over-interpret apparent visual correlations between spatial patterns of mortality and environmental and (or) sociodemographic factors. In many cases, patterns appear similar because some other unmeasured factor causes both the risk factor and the mortality patterns, not because the risk factor actually causes higher mortality. Users are urged to confirm suspected correlations by a more complete multi variate analysis which includes known risk factors for the disease. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1988 Ending_Date: 1992 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: 172 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -66 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 72 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 18 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: death Theme_Keyword: mortality Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. Place_Keyword: US Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of The United States, and Associated Areas (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 5-2): Washington ,D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. Place_Keyword: AL Place_Keyword: AK Place_Keyword: AZ Place_Keyword: AR Place_Keyword: CA Place_Keyword: CO Place_Keyword: CT Place_Keyword: DC Place_Keyword: DE Place_Keyword: FL Place_Keyword: GA Place_Keyword: HI Place_Keyword: IA Place_Keyword: ID Place_Keyword: IL Place_Keyword: IN Place_Keyword: KS Place_Keyword: KY Place_Keyword: LA Place_Keyword: MA Place_Keyword: MD Place_Keyword: ME Place_Keyword: MI Place_Keyword: MN Place_Keyword: MO Place_Keyword: MS Place_Keyword: MT Place_Keyword: NC Place_Keyword: ND Place_Keyword: NE Place_Keyword: NH Place_Keyword: NJ Place_Keyword: NM Place_Keyword: NV Place_Keyword: NY Place_Keyword: OH Place_Keyword: OK Place_Keyword: OR Place_Keyword: PA Place_Keyword: RI Place_Keyword: SC Place_Keyword: SD Place_Keyword: TN Place_Keyword: TX Place_Keyword: UT Place_Keyword: VA Place_Keyword: VT Place_Keyword: WA Place_Keyword: WI Place_Keyword: WV Place_Keyword: WY Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: None. Acknowledgment of the U.S. Geological Survey would be appreciated in products derived from these data. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Bruce Wright Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 521 National Center City: Reston State_or_Province: VA Postal_Code: 20192 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-4528 Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: The ArcInfo commands BUILD and CLEAN were run to ensure the topological consistency of the data set. Completeness_Report: This data set includes mortality rates for 18 selected causes of death, as well as the overall death rate, shown by sex and race (white and black) for the entire United States. All rates are directly age-adjusted to the 1940 U.S. population and are presented as number of deaths per 100,000 population. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 1996 Title: United States Counties Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Type_of_Source_Media: internal database Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1972 Ending_Date: 1994 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: COUNTYP020 Source_Contribution: spatial information Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Publication_Date: 1997 Title: Atlas of United States Mortality Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Hyattsville, MD Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1988 Ending_Date: 1992 Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition Source_Citation_Abbreviation: MORT Source_Contribution: attribute information Process_Step: Process_Description: The COUNTYP020 file was read into ArcInfo as a coverage and modified to reflect the 1990 county boundaries. The counties were aggregated to Health Service Areas (HSA's) and fields were added to the coverage for the HSA name and number. A new coverage of the Health Service Areas was created. The individual data base files (dbf's) from the Atlas of United States Mortality for each cause-of-death were loaded into ArcView and the attribute names were modified so cause-of-death was included. The dbf files were then merged into one large dbf file, with all 19 causes-of-death included. The dbf was converted to an INFO table which was then joined to the Health Service Areas coverage, and the result was converted to shapefile format. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: COUNTYP020 Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: MORT Process_Date: 1998 Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Indirect_Spatial_Reference: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions. (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of The United States, and Associated Areas (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 5-2): Washington, D. C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. U.S. Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of The United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 6-4): Washington, D.C. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Makuc D.M., Haglund B., Ingram D.D., et al. Health Service Areas for the United States. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 2(112), 1991. Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Ring composed of chains Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 3598 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.000278 Longitude_Resolution: 0.000278 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal Degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum 1983 Ellipsoid_Name: GRS1980 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: Mortalp020.dbf Entity_Type_Definition: Attribute table for mortality data Entity_Type_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute: Attribute_Label: Shape Attribute_Definition: The representation of the entity in the data Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey. Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Polygon Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: 2-dimensional element Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: GIS software Attribute: Attribute_Label: Area Attribute_Definition: The area of the polygon in coverage units. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.000 Range_Domain_Maximum: 163.325 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Perimeter Attribute_Definition: The perimeter of the area in coverage units Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.012 Range_Domain_Maximum: 346.588 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Mortalp020 Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 2 Range_Domain_Maximum: 3599 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Mortalp020 Attribute_Definition: User-assigned feature number Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 1 Range_Domain_Maximum: 3598 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Hsa Attribute_Definition: The number of the Health Service Area. A Health Service Area is an aggregation of counties or county equivalents, determined by a cluster analysis of where residents aged 65 years and over obtained routine short-term hospital care in 1988. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 1 Range_Domain_Maximum: 823 Attribute: Attribute_Label: Hsa_name Attribute_Definition: The name of the Health Service Area. The name includes the primary city or county in that Health Service Area. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Attribute_Domain_Values: Codeset_Domain: Codeset_Name: Atlas of United States Mortality, Appendix I; DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 97-1015; Hyattsville, MD; December 1996 Codeset_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Attribute: Attribute_Label: RateXXYY Attribute_Definition: The age-adjusted death rate due to cause YY (see table below) per 100,000 population, for group XX (see table below). XX indicates the gender and ethnic group to which the rate applies, where: wm = White males wf = White females bm = Black males bf = Black females YY indicates the cause of death to which the rate applies, where: 01 = Heart disease 04 = All cancers 05 = Lung cancer 06 = Breast cancer 07 = Colorectal cancer 08 = Prostate cancer 09 = Stroke 10 = Unintentional injuries 11 = Motor vehicle injuries 12 = Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) 13 = Pneumonia and influenza 14 = Diabetes 15 = Suicide 16 = Firearm suicide 17 = Homicide 18 = Firearm homicide 19 = Liver disease 20 = HIV 25 = All causes Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 33242 Attribute: Attribute_Label: RelXXYY Attribute_Definition: A description of the reliability (An unreliable rate is one with a coefficient of variation >23%. These rates are typically based on small numbers of deaths.) of the death rate measure, for deaths of group XX (see table below) due to cause YY (see table below). XX indicates the gender and ethnic group to which the reliability measure applies, where: wm = White males wf = White females bm = Black males bf = Black females YY indicates the cause of death to which the reliability measure applies, where: 01 = Heart disease 04 = All cancers 05 = Lung cancer 06 = Breast cancer 07 = Colorectal cancer 08 = Prostate cancer 09 = Stroke 10 = Unintentional injuries 11 = Motor vehicle injuries 12 = Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) 13 = Pneumonia and influenza 14 = Diabetes 15 = Suicide 16 = Firearm suicide 17 = Homicide 18 = Firearm homicide 19 = Liver disease 20 = HIV 25 = All causes Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 0 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The rate is reliable. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The rate is unreliable. An unreliable rate has a coefficient of variation of at least 23%. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Attribute: Attribute_Label: SigXXYY Attribute_Definition: A description of whether the death rate of group XX (see table below) due to cause YY (see table below) varies significantly from the U.S. death rate. XX indicates the gender and ethnic group to which the significance measure applies, where: wm = White males wf = White females bm = Black males bf = Black females YY indicates the cause of death to which the significance measure applies, where: 01 = Heart disease 04 = All cancers 05 = Lung cancer 06 = Breast cancer 07 = Colorectal cancer 08 = Prostate cancer 09 = Stroke 10 = Unintentional injuries 11 = Motor vehicle injuries 12 = Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) 13 = Pneumonia and influenza 14 = Diabetes 15 = Suicide 16 = Firearm suicide 17 = Homicide 18 = Firearm homicide 19 = Liver disease 20 = HIV 25 = All causes Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The rate is one of 80 lowest rates that are significantly different from the U.S. rate. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 2 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The rate is significantly lower than the U.S. rate but is not one of the 80 lowest. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 3 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The rate is not significantly different from the U.S. rate. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 4 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The rate is significantly higher than the U.S. rate but is not one of the 80 highest. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 5 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The rate is one of 80 highest rates that are significantly different from the U.S. rate. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Bruce Wright Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 521 National Center City: Reston State_or_Province: VA Postal_Code: 20192 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 703-648-4528 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bwright@usgs.gov Distribution_Liability: Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. 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