state_CM_Co_Data: County Level Cancer Mortality Rates for se;ected state for...

In SeerMapper: A Quick Way to Map U.S. Rates and Data of U.S. States, Counties, Census Tracts, or Seer Registries using 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census Boundaries

Description

These datasets containing the cancer mortality rates from the State Cancer Profile website at the county level for several states containing Seer Registries for the period of 2009 to 2013. The county level data for Georgia, Washington, California, and Kentucky have been included to support examples demonstrating difference features of the SeerMapper package. It was obtained through the State Cancer Profiles website at www.statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov. This data represents all races and sexes for all sites of cancer. The data was edited to remove the recent trend data and to add a pseudo-pValue based on the US age adjusted rate (AA_Rate = 168.5) and the abbreviation of the associated Seer Registry (if any). The dataset names for the state dataset are: Georgia_CM_Co_Data, Washington_CM_Co_Data, Kentucky_CM_Co_Data, and California_CM_Co_Data.

Usage

data(Georgia_CM_Co_Data)

Format

All of the state Cancer Mortality Rate datasets are at the county level and contains 10 columns:

stcoID

is a numeric value for the state and county U. S. FIPS codes. This is used to link the data to the county and state boundary data. It must be a 4 or 5 character string.

County

is a character vector county name provided by State Cancer Profiles.

stID

is a character vector containing the 2 digit state FIPS code.

AA_Rate

is a numeric value of the age-adjust rate for the county.

Lower_CI

is a numeric value for the lower confidence interval value for the age-adjusted rate.

Upper_CI

is a numeric value for the upper confidence interval value for the age-adjusted rate.

Avg_DpY

is a numeric value for the average number of deaths per year. This variable is not used in this package examples.

saID

is a character factor vector of the abbreviation of the Seer Registry the tract is a member. The Seer Registry abbreviations match the abbreviations used in the package boundaries datasets for each Seer Registry state. For Georgia the three Seer Registries are: GA-ATL, GA-RUR, and GA-OTH.

pValue

is a numeric value of 0.02 or 0.2. The pValue is set to 0.02 if the U. S. rate is not within the county's confidence interval range. It is set to 0.2 if the U. S. rate is within the interval. 0.02 indicates the county's rate is significant, while 0.2 indicates the rate is not significant.

pV

is a logical value indicating whether the county is significant or not.

The first two rows of the data.frame represent the rate information for the state and the USA. These rows MUST be deleted before using the data.frame with the package.

In the Georgia and Kentucky datasets, there are two additional columns: "FIPS" and "Rate". These columns are identical to the "stcoID" and "AA_Rate" columns and are used to demonstrate how the default values for the idCol and dataCol call parameters operate.

Source

The State Cancer Mortality data for the years 2009 to 2013 for all races and sexes for each county for all cancer sites was exported from the State Cancer Profile website www.statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on September 2, 2016. The data was modified to include the pValue, county's Seer Registry Abbreviation (if associated), and a stripped down county name. Data was collected for the counties of Georgia, California, Kentucky, and Washington.

SeerMapper documentation built on Jan. 15, 2021, 3:16 p.m.