Data dictionary for mort_hist_summ _1948–2015_data_file.csv Type: Comma separated values file (.csv) Contains: Mortality data for certain causes of death by sex from 1948–2015. Mortality data for and non-Māori for certain causes of death by sex from 1996–2015. Data sources: Data from 1948–1995 was sourced from publications in the Ministry of Health . Data from 1996–2015 was sourced from the New Zealand Mortality Collection electronic records, extracted on 13 February 2018. Variable Description year Death registration year causeofdeath Underlying cause of death (grouped) - refer to the coding information in Mortality: Historical summary 1948–2015 for how the ICD codes are grouped over time sex Sex of person at death (Male, Female, AllSex) ethgroup Ethnic group (AllEth, Māori, non-Māori). Uses prioritised ethnicity, by which each person represented in the data is allocated to a single ethnic group using the priority system Māori > Pacific peoples > Asian > European or Other. The non-Māori ethnic group aggregates all people allocated a Pacific, Asian, or European or Other ethnicity. number* Number of registered deaths asrate* Age-standardised rate per 100,000 (refer to definition below) *Unavailable data in the number or asrate column of the .csv file indicates that data was unavailable for that ‘…’ variable. This applies to data for: other forms of heart disease data (unavailable prior to 1950) chronic lower respiratory disease data (unavailable prior to 1968). Age-standardised The rates in this file have been age standardised to take into account the differences in the age distribution of the population over time. We used direct age-standardisation and the WHO World Population as the standard population. For more information about the reference population refer to .
Data dictionary for mort_hist_summ _1948–2015_data_file.csv Type: Comma separated values file (.csv) Contains: Mortality data for certain causes of death by sex from 1948–2015. Mortality data for and non-Māori for certain causes of death by sex from 1996–2015. Data sources: Data from 1948–1995 was sourced from publications in the Ministry of Health . Data from 1996–2015 was sourced from the New Zealand Mortality Collection electronic records, extracted on 13 February 2018. Variable Description year Death registration year causeofdeath Underlying cause of death (grouped) - refer to the coding information in Mortality: Historical summary 1948–2015 for how the ICD codes are grouped over time sex Sex of person at death (Male, Female, AllSex) ethgroup Ethnic group (AllEth, Māori, non-Māori). Uses prioritised ethnicity, by which each person represented in the data is allocated to a single ethnic group using the priority system Māori > Pacific peoples > Asian > European or Other. The non-Māori ethnic group aggregates all people allocated a Pacific, Asian, or European or Other ethnicity. number* Number of registered deaths asrate* Age-standardised rate per 100,000 (refer to definition below) *Unavailable data ‘…’ in the number or asrate column of the .csv file indicates that data was unavailable for that variable. This applies to data for: other forms of heart disease data (unavailable prior to 1950) chronic lower respiratory disease data (unavailable prior to 1968). Age-standardised The rates in this file have been age standardised to take into account the differences in the age distribution of the population over time. We used direct age-standardisation and the WHO World Population as the standard population. For more information about the reference population refer to .
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