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Interpretation of Death Rates Data

Death Rate Report by State

Childhood (Ages <20, All Sites), 2018-2022

All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes

Sorted by CI*Rank

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of *** is from the Healthy People 2020 project done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Death Rate (95% Confidence Interval) - The death rate is based upon 100,000 people and is for 5 year(s). Rates are age-adjusted by 5-year age groups to the 2000 U.S. standard million population (the Healthy People 2020 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal).

Recent Trends - This is an interpretation of the AAPC:

AAPC (95% Confidence Interval) - The Average Annual Percent Change is the change in rate over time. These AAPCs are based upon APCs that were calculated by Joinpoint Regression Program


Other Notes


Line by Line Interpretation of the Report


United States


Puerto Rico (8)


New Mexico


South Dakota


Delaware


Nevada


Massachusetts


Colorado


Minnesota


Louisiana


Hawaii (8)


New Jersey


Kentucky


Montana


Rhode Island


Kansas


Utah


Oregon


Missouri


Washington


Alabama


Arkansas


Tennessee


Illinois


Ohio


Wisconsin


Michigan


North Carolina


South Carolina


Florida


West Virginia


Virginia


Georgia


Idaho


Maryland


Pennsylvania


North Dakota


California


Texas


Nebraska


Indiana


Iowa


New Hampshire


Mississippi


New York


Oklahoma


Arizona


Connecticut


Wyoming


Maine


Alaska


District of Columbia Vermont

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 12/07/2024 4:06 am.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.
Trend
Rising when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is above 0.
Stable when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change includes 0.
Falling when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is below 0.

† Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85+). The Healthy People 2030 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.
The US Population Data File is used with mortality data.
‡ The Average Annual Percent Change (AAPC) is based on the APCs calculated by Joinpoint. Due to data availability issues, the time period used in the calculation of the joinpoint regression model may differ for selected counties.
8 Due to data availability issues, the time period used in the calculation of the joinpoint regression model may differ for selected counties.


* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category. If an average count of 3 is shown, the total number of cases for the time period is 16 or more which exceeds suppression threshold (but is rounded to 3).

Please note that the data comes from different sources. Due to different years of data availability, most of the trends are AAPCs based on APCs but some are APCs calculated in SEER*Stat. Please refer to the source for each graph for additional information.

Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.