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Interpretation of Death Rates Data

Death Rate Report for North Carolina by County

Esophagus, 2018-2022

All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, All Ages

Sorted by Count

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


North Carolina


United States


Wake County


Mecklenburg County


Guilford County


Forsyth County


Buncombe County


Cumberland County


New Hanover County


Gaston County


Durham County


Brunswick County


Alamance County


Catawba County


Iredell County


Davidson County


Randolph County


Union County


Rowan County


Cabarrus County


Harnett County


Craven County


Johnston County


Pitt County


Onslow County


Carteret County


Moore County


Henderson County


Caldwell County


Orange County


Wayne County


Wilson County


Haywood County


Burke County


Chatham County


Robeson County


Lincoln County


Nash County


Rockingham County


McDowell County


Surry County


Wilkes County


Columbus County


Stanly County


Cleveland County


Edgecombe County


Halifax County


Davie County


Lee County


Rutherford County


Franklin County


Pender County


Sampson County


Alexander County Alleghany County Anson County Ashe County Avery County Beaufort County Bertie County Bladen County Camden County Caswell County Cherokee County Chowan County Clay County Currituck County Dare County Duplin County Gates County Graham County Granville County Greene County Hertford County Hoke County Hyde County Jackson County Jones County Lenoir County Macon County Madison County Martin County Mitchell County Montgomery County Northampton County Pamlico County Pasquotank County Perquimans County Person County Polk County Richmond County Scotland County Stokes County Swain County Transylvania County Tyrrell County Vance County Warren County Washington County Watauga County Yadkin County Yancey County

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 07/13/2025 4:24 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.

*** No Healthy People 2030 Objective for this cancer.
Healthy People 2030 Objectives provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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.