Age-adjustment mortality rates are rates of deaths that are computed using a statistical method to create a metric based on the true death rate so that it can be compared over time for a single population (i.e. comparing 2006-2008 to 2010-2012), as well as enable comparisons across different populations with possibly different age distributions in their populations (i.e. comparing Hispanic residents to Asian residents). Age adjustment methods applied to Montgomery County rates are consistent with US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as well as Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Vital Statistics Administration (DHMH VSA). PHS Planning and Epidemiology receives an annual data file of Montgomery County resident deaths registered with Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Vital Statistics Administration (DHMH VSA). Using SAS analytic software, MCDHHS standardizes, aggregates, and calculates age-adjusted rates for each of the leading causes of death category consistent with state and national methods and by subgroups based on age, gender, race, and ethnicity combinations. Data are released in compliance with Data Use Agreements between DHMH VSA and MCDHHS. This dataset will be updated Annually.
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This SAS macro generates childhood mortality estimates (neonatal, post-neonatal, infant (1q0), child (4q1) and under-five (5q0) mortality) and standard errors based on birth histories reported by women during a household survey. We have made the SAS macro flexible enough to accommodate a range of calculation specifications including multi-stage sampling frames, and simple random samples or censuses. Childhood mortality rates are the component death probabilities of dying before a specific age. This SAS macro is based on a macro built by Keith Purvis at MeasureDHS. His method is described in Estimating Sampling Errors of Means, Total Fertility, and Childhood Mortality Rates Using SAS (www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/OD17/OD17.pdf, section 4). More information about Childhood Mortality Estimation can also be found in the Guide to DHS Statistics (www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/DHSG1/Guide_DHS_Statistics.pdf, page 93). We allow the user to specify whether childhood mortality calculations should be based on 5 or 10 years of birth histories, when the birth history window ends, and how to handle age of death with it is reported in whole months (rather than days). The user can also calculate mortality rates within sub-populations, and take account of a complex survey design (unequal probability and cluster samples). Finally, this SAS program is designed to read data in a number of different formats.
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Age-adjustment mortality rates are rates of deaths that are computed using a statistical method to create a metric based on the true death rate so that it can be compared over time for a single population (i.e. comparing 2006-2008 to 2010-2012), as well as enable comparisons across different populations with possibly different age distributions in their populations (i.e. comparing Hispanic residents to Asian residents). Age adjustment methods applied to Montgomery County rates are consistent with US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as well as Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Vital Statistics Administration (DHMH VSA). PHS Planning and Epidemiology receives an annual data file of Montgomery County resident deaths registered with Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Vital Statistics Administration (DHMH VSA). Using SAS analytic software, MCDHHS standardizes, aggregates, and calculates age-adjusted rates for each of the leading causes of death category consistent with state and national methods and by subgroups based on age, gender, race, and ethnicity combinations. Data are released in compliance with Data Use Agreements between DHMH VSA and MCDHHS. This dataset will be updated Annually.