CARBayesdata (version 2.2)

pollutionhealthdata: Respiratory hospitalisation, air pollution and covariate data for the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board between 2007 and 2011.

Description

A data.frame object containing spatio-temporal data on respiratory hospitalisations, air pollution concentrations and socio-economic deprivation covariates for the 271 Intermediate Geographies (IG) that make up the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board in Scotland. Yearly data are available between 2007 and 2011 inclusive. These data are used in a worked example in the vignette accompanying the CARBayesST package.

Usage

data(pollutionhealthdata)

Format

A data.frame object containing 1355 observations on the following 7 variables.

IG

The unique identifier for each IG.

year

The year the data relate to.

observed

The observed numbers of hospitalisations due to respiratory disease.

expected

The expected numbers of hospitalisations due to respiratory disease computed using indirect standardisation from Scotland-wide respiratory hospitalisation rates.

pm10

Average particulate matter (less than 10 microns) concentrations.

jsa

The percentage of working age people who are in receipt of Job Seekers Allowance, a benefit paid to unemployed people looking for work.

price

Average property price (divided by 100,000).

Examples

# NOT RUN {
    data(pollutionhealthdata)
# }