Data provided "as is," no warranties.
File Description
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ohdat.dbf: |
Data set with lung mortality for Ohio (OH) counties, 1968, 1978, 1988 (for joining with OH base map); 88 observations, 39 variables |
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ohioutmbnd.txt: |
Ohio County ASCII boundary files in UTM Zone 17 projection |
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ohutm.shp shx dbf: |
Shape file constructed from ohioutmbnd.txt (contains no data); 88 observations, 4 variables |
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ohlung.shp shx dbf: |
Shape file for OH counties with all data; 88 observations, 42 variables |
Type = Polygon shape files
Source
Boundary file: Data manipulation by Luc Anselin and through GeoDa.
Lung cancer mortality data from Brad Carlin's web site (file ohio.dat), available at http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~brad/data2.html. Conversion to GeoDa input format by Luc Anselin.
Reference
Xia, Hong and Bradley P. Carlin (1998). Spatio-temporal models with errors in covariates: mapping Ohio lung cancer mortality. Statistics in Medicine 17, 2025-043.
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Variable |
Description |
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CountyID |
Sequential county ID (alphabetic order) |
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Name |
County name |
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FIPSNO |
Fips code as numeric |
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For each year, there are 12 variables: |
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LGRyy |
Lung cancer cases for gender G (M or F) and race R (W or B) in year yy (1968, 1978, 1988) |
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POPGRyy |
Population at risk for gender G (M or F) and race R (W or B) in year yy (1968, 1978, 1988) |
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LGyy |
Total male and female lung cancer cases for each year |
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POPGyy |
Total population at risk by gender |
Prepared by Luc Anselin.
Last updated June 3, 2004