State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Death Rates Data

Death Rate Report for New Hampshire by County

Breast, 2015-2019

All Races (includes Hispanic), Female, All Ages

Sorted by Rate

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of 0.0 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:

• 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.

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

• Larger confidence intervals indicate less stability of the data. This is often due to low counts that are not quite low enough to be suppressed.
• Data is currently being suppressed if there are fewer than 16 counts for the time period.

Line by Line Interpretation of the Report

New Hampshire

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The death rate is 18.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 16.9 to 19.4 and 176 average annual deaths over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -2.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -3.0 to -2.3.

United States

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The death rate is 19.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 19.8 to 20.0 and 41,951 average annual deaths over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.5 to -1.3.

Strafford County

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The death rate is 26.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 21.5 to 32.6 and 20 average annual deaths over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 1 (1, 5)
• Recent Trend : The trend is rising because the trend is 10.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 0.9 to 21.2.

Merrimack County

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The death rate is 22.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 18.6 to 27.3 and 25 average annual deaths over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 2 (1, 6)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.3 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.5 to -0.1.

Coos County

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The death rate is 21.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 14.0 to 32.8 and 6 average annual deaths over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 3 (1, 10)
• Recent Trend : * 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).

Grafton County

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The death rate is 21.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 16.3 to 27.2 and 14 average annual deaths over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 4 (1, 8)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -2.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -4.0 to -1.3.

Belknap County

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The death rate is 20.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 14.6 to 28.1 and 9 average annual deaths over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 5 (1, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -2.2 with a 95% confidence interval from -3.4 to -1.0.

Cheshire County

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The death rate is 19.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 15.0 to 26.2 and 12 average annual deaths over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 6 (1, 9)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.7 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.9 to -0.4.

Rockingham County

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The death rate is 15.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 13.6 to 18.5 and 36 average annual deaths over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 7 (5, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -3.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -4.1 to -3.0.

Carroll County

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The death rate is 15.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 11.0 to 22.6 and 8 average annual deaths over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 8 (3, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -3.0 with a 95% confidence interval from -4.5 to -1.4.

Hillsborough County

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The death rate is 14.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 12.9 to 17.2 and 41 average annual deaths over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 9 (6, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -3.1 with a 95% confidence interval from -3.7 to -2.5.

Sullivan County

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The death rate is 13.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 8.5 to 21.7 and 5 average annual deaths over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 10 (4, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -4.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -6.0 to -3.1.

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 05/25/2022 12:38 pm.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.
† 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 2020 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 1969-2018 US Population Data File is used with mortality data.
* 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).


Interpret Rankings provides insight into interpreting cancer incidence statistics. When the population size for a denominator is small, the rates may be unstable. A rate is unstable when a small change in the numerator (e.g., only one or two additional cases) has a dramatic effect on the calculated rate.

Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.

When displaying county information, the CI*Rank for the state is not shown because it's not comparable. To see the state CI*Rank please view the statistics at the US By State level.