vital-mortality

Provisional analysis of US mortality rates.

Contents

• acs.R: Combine mortality data with ACS population data.
• mortality.py: Process bulk CDC/NVSS mortality data into a simple format.
• usa_00024.cbk.txt: IPUMS codebook

Note: Raw data are not included in this repository due to size.

Usage

Download CDC mortality data and place in data.

Execute an IPUMS query matching usa_00024.cbk.txt, unzip the results, and rename them usa_00024.csv.

Run mortality.py to preprocess the CDC mortality data.

Run acs.R to mash up ACS data and produce age-standardized death rates.