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Interpretation of Death Rates Data

Death Rate Report for West Virginia by County

Colon & Rectum, 2018-2022

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

Sorted by CI*Rank

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of 74.4 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


West Virginia


United States


Putnam County


Hancock County


Monongalia County


Jackson County


Mineral County


Ohio County


Upshur County


Preston County


Cabell County


Jefferson County


Kanawha County


Raleigh County


Braxton County


Berkeley County


Wayne County


Wetzel County


Brooke County


Wood County


Nicholas County


Harrison County


Marion County


Greenbrier County


Boone County


Hardy County


Mason County


Summers County


Randolph County


Taylor County


Monroe County


Wyoming County


Fayette County


Roane County


Hampshire County


Mercer County


Marshall County


Lewis County


Logan County


Lincoln County


Morgan County


Mingo County


Barbour County


Pocahontas County


McDowell County


Calhoun County Clay County Doddridge County Gilmer County Grant County Pendleton County Pleasants County Ritchie County Tucker County Tyler County Webster County Wirt County

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 12/04/2024 5:43 pm.

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.