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Interpretation of Death Rates Data

Death Rate Report for Mississippi by County

All Cancer Sites, 2018-2022

White Non-Hispanic, Both Sexes, All Ages

Sorted by Rate

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of 122.7 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


Mississippi


United States (6)


Quitman County


Leflore County


Tunica County


Yazoo County


Humphreys County


Marshall County


Lawrence County


George County


Tishomingo County


Pontotoc County


Holmes County


Jasper County


Panola County


Grenada County


Sunflower County


Tate County


Stone County


Perry County


Lee County


Union County


Covington County


Attala County


Pearl River County


Webster County


Yalobusha County


Chickasaw County


Adams County


Harrison County


Lowndes County


Prentiss County


Tallahatchie County


Forrest County


Jackson County


Madison County


Bolivar County


Sharkey County


Kemper County


DeSoto County


Wayne County


Washington County


Wilkinson County


Leake County


Monroe County


Neshoba County


Carroll County


Warren County


Marion County


Simpson County


Lincoln County


Itawamba County


Benton County


Alcorn County


Hancock County


Coahoma County


Clay County


Pike County


Walthall County


Calhoun County


Tippah County


Winston County


Montgomery County


Newton County


Smith County


Greene County


Scott County


Franklin County


Jefferson Davis County


Jones County


Copiah County


Lauderdale County


Clarke County


Hinds County


Choctaw County


Claiborne County


Oktibbeha County


Lamar County


Lafayette County


Rankin County


Noxubee County


Amite County


Issaquena County Jefferson County

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 07/08/2025 7:03 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.

⋔ Results presented with the CI*Rank statistics help show the usefulness of ranks. For example, ranks for relatively rare diseases or less populated areas may be essentially meaningless because of their large variability, but ranks for more common diseases in densely populated regions can be very useful. More information about methodology can be found on the CI*Rank website.

Healthy People 2030 Objectives provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
6 Hispanic mortality recent trend data for the United States has been excluded for the following states: Louisiana, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma. The data on Hispanic and non-Hispanic mortality for these states may be unreliable for the time period used in the generation of the recent trend (1990 - 2022) and has been excluded from the calculation of the United States recent trend. This was based on the NCHS Policy.

Φ Rural-Urban Continuum Codes provided by the USDA.

* 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.