life: Healthy Life Expectancy at Age 65

Description Usage Format Source

Description

A dataset containing the healthy life expectancy (expected years of life in good health) at age 65, by US state in 2007-2009. Estimates are reported separately for men and women.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 50 rows and 4 variables. The variables are as follows:

region

A factor with 5 levels (North Central, Northeast, South, West)

state

A factor with the 2-letter ISO codes for the 50 US states

hlem

Healthy life expectancy for men in years

hlef

Healthy life expectancy for women in years

Source

The hlem and hlef data were obtained from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6228a1.htm?s_cid=mm6228a1_w. The region variable was added from the state.region dataset.


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