US Regional Mortality Rates by Cause and Gender

This dataset, USRegionalMortality_df, is a data frame containing region-wise mortality rates across all ages in the USA by cause of death, sex, rural and urban status from 2011 to 2013. The data represent rates for each administrative region under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Usage

data(USRegionalMortality_df)

Format

A data frame with 400 observations and 6 variables:

Region

HHS administrative region (factor with 10 levels)

Status

Rural/Urban status (factor with 2 levels)

Sex

Gender (factor with 2 levels)

Cause

Cause of death (factor with 10 levels)

Rate

Mortality rate (numeric vector)

SE

Standard error of mortality rate (numeric vector)

Source

Data taken from the lattice package version 0.22-6

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 PulmoDataSets 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.