lifex: life expectancy by tract

In ejanalysis/countyhealthrankings: Data on Health Indicators by US County, from countyhealthrankings.org

life expectancy by tract

Description

This data set provides life expectancy estimates for US Census tracts.

Format

A data.frame with 65662 observations (tracts) of 7 variables
FIPS FIPS.ST FIPS.COUNTY3 FIPS.TRACT6 lifex se flag
original colnames: "Tract ID","STATE2KX","CNTY2KX","TRACT2KX","e(0)","se(e(0))","Abridged life table flag"

'data.frame': 65662 obs. of 7 variables:
$ FIPS : chr "01001020100" "01001020200" "01001020400" "01001020500" ...
$ FIPS.ST : chr "01" "01" "01" "01" ...
$ FIPS.COUNTY3: chr "001" "001" "001" "001" ...
$ FIPS.TRACT6 : chr "020100" "020200" "020400" "020500" ...
$ lifex : num 73.1 76.9 75.4 79.4 73.1 78.3 76.9 73.9 74 72.2 ...
$ se : num 2.23 3.35 1.02 1.18 1.55 ...
$ flag : int 3 3 3 1 3 3 2 1 2 2 ...

Details

Suggested citation
For data files: National Center for Health Statistics. U.S. Small-Area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP): Life Expectancy Estimates File for Jurisdiction, 2010-2015]. National Center for Health Statistics. 2018. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/usaleep/usaleep.html.
For methodology: Arias E, Escobedo LA, Kennedy J, Fu C, Cisewski J. U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project: Methodology and Results Summary (PDF 8 MB). National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 2(181). 2018.

The U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP) is a partnership of NCHS, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) to produce a new measure of health for where you live. The USALEEP project produced estimates of life expectancy at birth - the average number of years a person can expect to live - for most of the census tracts in the United States for the period 2010-2015. The abridged period life tables calculated to estimate census-tract life expectancy at birth for the period 2010-2015 are based on a methodology developed for this project and described in the report: Arias E, Escobedo LA, Kennedy J, Fu C, Cisewski J. U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project: Methodology and Results Summary (PDF 8 MB). National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 2(181). 2018.
Life Expectancy Files contain geographic identifiers, life expectancy at birth for 2010-2015, and flags noting whether the estimates were based exclusively on observed data, a combination of observed and predicted values, or exclusively predicted values.

Obtained as follows:

# require(readr)
# filename <- 'https://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/NVSS/USALEEP/CSV/US_A.CSV'
# x <- read_csv(file = filename, col_names = TRUE)
# colnames(x) <- c('FIPS', 'FIPS.ST', 'FIPS.COUNTY3', 'FIPS.TRACT6', 'lifex', 'se', 'flag')
# lifex <- as.data.frame(x)
# save(lifex, file = 'lifex.RData')

Source

2018 dataset from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/usaleep/usaleep.html obtained 9/28/2028 and slightly modified to provide new column names.

Also see: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/usaleep/usaleep.html

ejanalysis/countyhealthrankings documentation built on March 25, 2022, 9:15 a.m.