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Interpretation of Death Rates Data

Death Rate Report for North Carolina by County

Prostate, 2018-2022

All Races (includes Hispanic), Male, All Ages

Sorted by Ruralurban

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of 16.9 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


Alamance County


Alexander County


Anson County


Brunswick County


Buncombe County


Burke County


Cabarrus County


Caldwell County


Catawba County


Chatham County


Cumberland County


Davidson County


Davie County


Durham County


Edgecombe County


Forsyth County


Franklin County


Gaston County


Guilford County


Henderson County


Hoke County


Iredell County


Johnston County


Lincoln County


Mecklenburg County


Moore County


Nash County


New Hanover County


Onslow County


Orange County


Pender County


Person County


Pitt County


Randolph County


Rockingham County


Rowan County


Stokes County


Union County


Wake County


Wayne County


Yadkin County


Ashe County


Beaufort County


Bertie County


Bladen County


Carteret County


Caswell County


Cherokee County


Chowan County


Cleveland County


Columbus County


Craven County


Dare County


Duplin County


Granville County


Halifax County


Harnett County


Haywood County


Hertford County


Lee County


Lenoir County


Macon County


Martin County


McDowell County


Montgomery County


Northampton County


Pasquotank County


Polk County


Richmond County


Robeson County


Rutherford County


Sampson County


Stanly County


Surry County


Transylvania County


Vance County


Warren County


Watauga County


Wilkes County


Wilson County


Yancey County


Alleghany County Avery County Camden County Clay County Currituck County Gates County Graham County Greene County Hyde County Jackson County Jones County Madison County Mitchell County Pamlico County Perquimans County Scotland County Swain County Tyrrell County Washington County

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 11/04/2024 3:53 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.

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.