US Region Mortality Rates by Cause (Cancer) and Gender

This dataset, USRegionalMortality_df, is a data frame containing mortality rates across all ages in the USA, recorded region-wise by cause of death, sex, and rural/urban status for the years 2011–2013. It includes region-wide rates for each administrative region under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The dataset consists of 400 observations with 6 variables.

Usage

data(USRegionalMortality_df)

Format

A data frame with 400 observations and 6 variables:

Region

Administrative region under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (factor with 10 levels).

Status

Rural or urban status (factor with 2 levels).

Sex

Gender of the individual (factor with 2 levels).

Cause

Cause of death (factor with 10 levels).

Rate

Mortality rate (numeric).

SE

Standard error of the mortality rate (numeric).

Source

Data taken from the lattice package. This dataset is based on the study by the Rural Health Reform Policy Research Center: *Exploring Rural and Urban Mortality Differences*, August 2015, Bethesda, MD. Available at https://ruralhealth.und.edu/projects/health-reform-policy-research-center/rural-urban-mortality.

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'USRegionalMortality_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the OncoDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix '_df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified in any way.