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Expectation of Life and Expected Deaths, by Race, Sex, and Age: 2004 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0101)

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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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Credits

US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)
Washington, DC, 2007;
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Statistics of

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Statistics of

the United States, annual; and National Vital Statistics Report (NVSR), Vol. 54, No. 14.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Statistics of http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/lftbls/life/1966.htm

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Statistics of

the United States, annual; and National Vital Statistics Report (NVSR), Vol. 54, No. 14.

For more information:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/lftbls/life/1966.htm

referenced on dataset section Notes (#2)

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Rights Info

All US Census Bureau materials, regardless of the media, are entirely in the public domain. There are no user fees, site licenses, or any special agreements etc for the public or private use, and or reuse of any census title. As tax funded product, it’s all in the public record.
Some of our products, however, are special cases. […] The Statistical Abstract has some data covered by copyright law. Check the table’s footnotes to determine if the data are covered by copyright law.

File structure

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
    corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
    gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
    data were changed.
The tables that were changed: 0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
    comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data
    follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. Includes other races not shown separately.
  2. Based on the proportion of the cohort who are alive at the beginning
    of the indicated age who will die before reaching the age shown plus 1.
    For example, out of every 1,000 people alive and exactly
    50 years old at the beginning of the period, between 4 and 5 (4.49) will
    die before reaching their 51st birthdays.

Headnotes

[See Appendix III]

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table: [78, 11]

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Age (years) White Black White Black
Total 1 Male Female Male Female Total 1 Male Female Male Female
At birth 77.8 75.7037313622 80.7866938131 69.518673882 76.3114663855 5.66 6.22 5.07 15.25 12.37
1 77.4 75.1767513406 80.1974573149 69.5934091141 76.2654931714 0.44 0.46 0.42 0.76 0.66
2 76.4 74.2107563905 79.2306370538 68.6462518694 75.3158627774 0.27 0.3 0.23 0.47 0.41
3 75.4 73.2328792019 78.2488335558 67.6782052183 74.3467511149 0.2 0.22 0.18 0.4 0.3
4 74.4 72.2490113878 77.2624588553 66.7047411766 73.3689329374 0.17 0.2 0.15 0.31 0.25
5 73.5 71.2631428245 76.27401847 65.7249866006 72.3872513816 0.15 0.17 0.13 0.28 0.24
6 72.5 70.2754858692 75.2840943149 64.7434003148 71.4044444035 0.15 0.17 0.12 0.26 0.21
11=. … snip
Source: U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Statistics of
the United States, annual; and National Vital Statistics Report (NVSR), Vol. 54, No. 14.

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