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Interpretation of Death Rates Data

Death Rate Report for South Carolina by County

All Cancer Sites, 2018-2022

All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages <50

Sorted by Ruralurban

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


South Carolina


United States


Aiken County


Anderson County


Beaufort County


Berkeley County


Charleston County


Chester County


Darlington County


Dorchester County


Florence County


Greenville County


Horry County


Kershaw County


Lancaster County


Laurens County


Lexington County


Pickens County


Richland County


Spartanburg County


Sumter County


Union County


York County


Cherokee County


Chesterfield County


Clarendon County


Colleton County


Dillon County


Georgetown County


Greenwood County


Marion County


Marlboro County


Newberry County


Oconee County


Orangeburg County


Williamsburg County


Abbeville County Allendale County Bamberg County Barnwell County Calhoun County Edgefield County Fairfield County Hampton County Jasper County Lee County McCormick County Saluda County

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 11/05/2024 11:43 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.

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.