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Deaths and Death Rates, by Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1970 to 2004 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0102)

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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 Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes.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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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,

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics,

Vital Statistics of the United States, annual; and

National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 55, No. 19, August 21, 2007.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr55/nvsr55_19.pdf

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics,

Vital Statistics of the United States, annual; and

National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 55, No. 19, August 21, 2007.

For more information:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr55/nvsr55_19.pdf

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. Persons of Hispanic origin may be any race.

Headnotes

[Rates are per 1,000 population for specified groups. Excludes fetal deaths. For explanation of age-adjustment, see text, section 2. The standard population for this table is the total population of the United States enumerated in 1940. See Appendix III]

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Deaths 1 (1,000) 1921.031 1989.841 2148.463 2312.132 2314.69 2314.245 2337.256 2391.399 2403.351 2416.425 2443.387 2448.288 2398
Male 1 (1,000) 1078.478 1075.078 1113.417 1172.959 1163.569 1154.039 1157.26 1175.46 1177.578 1183.421 1199.264 1201.964 1182
Female 1 (1,000) 842.553 914.763 1035.046 1139.173 1151.121 1160.206 1179.996 1215.939 1225.773 1233.004 1244.123 1246.324 1216
White (1,000) 1682.096 1738.607 1853.254 1987.437 1992.966 1996.393 2015.984 2061.348 2071.287 2079.691 2102.589 2103.714 2057
Male (1,000) 942.437 933.878 950.812 997.277 991.984 986.884 990.19 1005.335 1007.191 1011.218 1025.196 1025.65 1007
Female (1,000) 739.659 804.729 902.442 990.16 1000.982 1009.509 1025.794 1056.013 1064.096 1068.473 1077.393 1078.064 1049
Black (1,000) 225.647 233.135 265.498 286.401 282.089 276.52 278.44 285.064 285.826 287.709 290.051 291.3 287
Male (1,000) 127.54 130.138 145.359 154.175 149.472 144.11 143.417 145.703 145.184 145.908 146.835 148.022 146
Female (1,000) 98.107 102.997 120.139 132.226 132.617 132.41 135.023 139.361 140.642 141.801 143.216 143.278 141
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Vital Statistics of the United States, annual; and
National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 55, No. 19, August 21, 2007.

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Notes (pg 2)

  • (NA) Not available.

Tablenum

0102

Year

2008

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