Ohio Lung Cancer Data

Data provided "as is," no warranties.


File Description

ohdat.dbf:

Data set with lung mortality for Ohio (OH) counties, 1968, 1978, 1988 (for joining with OH base map); 88 observations, 39 variables

ohioutmbnd.txt:

Ohio County ASCII boundary files in UTM Zone 17 projection

ohutm.shp shx dbf:

Shape file constructed from ohioutmbnd.txt (contains no data); 88 observations, 4 variables

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.

Variable

Description

CountyID 

Sequential county ID (alphabetic order) 

Name 

County name 

FIPSNO 

Fips code as numeric 


For each year, there are 12 variables:

LGRyy 

Lung cancer cases for gender G (M or F) and race R (W or B) in year yy (1968, 1978, 1988) 

POPGRyy 

Population at risk for gender G (M or F) and race R (W or B) in year yy (1968, 1978, 1988) 

LGyy 

Total male and female lung cancer cases for each year 

POPGyy 

Total population at risk by gender 



Prepared by Luc Anselin.

Last updated June 3, 2004