Healthy Women: State Trends in Health and Mortality

CD-ROM training

Kate BrettJoanna Skilogianis

Centers for Disease Control and PreventionNational Center for Health Statistics

Purpose

This product is useful as a tool to look at mortality and health statistics among specific population groups within a state.All data available concurrently by:

State,Race and ethnicity,Sex, andAge

Development Considerations

All estimates are 3-year averages.Pooling avoids confidentiality issues and gives the estimates greater precision.Estimates with large standard errors are suppressed.

This product released as interactive data tables, not static paper publication.

User can format tables as desired.Updates of the data can be released on the Internet easily.

Technical Issues

Precision: based on relative standard error (RSE)RSE = SE/estimateMortality: suppression of estimates with less than 20 deaths (approximate RSE>23%).BRFSS: suppression of estimates with RSE>30%.

Age-adjustment: All estimates are age-adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.

Data Sources

1994-1998 Mortality1996-1999 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)2000 BRFSS updates now available on the website:

www.cdc.gov/nchs/healthywomen.htm

Beyond 20/20™ software

Software privately developed to allow interactive presentation of data.The section of the software necessary to read the data is distributed with the data.Information on how to use the software available:

on the CD-ROM insert,in this presentation, andon the web at:

www.cdc.gov/nchs/healthywomen.htm

Beyond 20/20 ConceptsTable: a presentation of multi-dimensional data and descriptive text.Dimension: an attribute of the table’s data, e.g., sex, race, or State.Item: an element of a dimension, e.g., Alaska is an item of the state dimension.Tile: a rectangle in the table that shows the dimension name or the label of the item currently displayed.

Parts of a Beyond 20/20™ table

Demonstration: Opening Tables

Open Beyond 20/20.The Find Files box opens.

Choose type of data.Choose subject matter.

If need help, look at table summary.Highlight table, and press “OK”.

The Find File button can be used to go to this feature to find additional tables.

Summaries

Summaries contain information useful to understand the data being presented.Any level of the table may have summary information.

If a summary is available, the label will be highlighted in blue.

Navigating Tables

Active dimension box: dimension that is “active”.

Note that the active dimension tile is highlighted.Arrow keys allow one to move through the items in that dimension.

Highlighting different dimension tiles will change the active dimension.

Changing Table Views

Selecting dataHiding and showing data using the item menu

Resetting view back to original using ‘view’ and ‘reset’Switching table dimensionsNesting table dimensions

Charting

Create a chart using the chart button.Change chart options using right mouse button.Browse through a series of charts.

Select one of the headings in the title of the chart.Use the arrow buttons to chart the previous or next item.

Mapping

Create a map using the map button.Change map options using right mouse button.Browse through a series of maps.

Select one of the headings in the title of the map.Use the arrow buttons to chart the previous or next item.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs

Technical SupportTo receive technical support for using the

Beyond 20/20 software, contact:Phyllis Chappell or Connie BanksPChappell@cdc.gov CBanks@cdc.gov(919) 541-4466 (919) 541-3624

For information on the data itself, contact:Joanna Skilogianis or Kate BrettJSkilogianis@cdc.gov KBrett@cdc.gov(301) 458-4735 (301) 458-4113

Mortality Example

Mortality by State, Race/Ethnicity, Sex, Age and Cause, 1994-1998

Incidence of breast cancer mortality among various age groups of Hispanic white women in California and Florida in 1996-1998

BRFSS Example

Smoking Status by State, Race/Ethnicity, Sex and Age, 1996-1999

Smoking status among white women aged 18-44 in 1997-1999