Epi (version 2.19)

ewrates: Rates of lung and nasal cancer mortality, and total mortality.

Description

England and Wales mortality rates from lung cancer, nasal cancer, and all causes 1936 - 1980. The 1936 rates are repeated as 1931 rates in order to accomodate follow up for the nickel study.

Usage

data(ewrates)

Format

A data frame with 150 observations on the following 5 variables:

id:	Subject identifier (numeric)
year	Calendar period, 1931: 1931--35, 1936: 1936--40, …
age	Age class: 10: 10--14, 15:15--19, …
lung	Lung cancer mortality rate per 1,000,000 py.
nasal	Nasal cancer mortality rate per 1,000,000 py.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(ewrates)
str(ewrates)
# }