usamabilal / salurbal_ms38

Scaling of Mortality in 742 Metropolitan Areas of the Americas

Repository for the article Scaling of Mortality in 742 Metropolitan Areas of the Americas.

• Data_Management.R: Contains data management for both mortality and population.
• Analysis.R: Contains all analysis for the paper.
• MS38_HELPER_FUNCTIONS.R: Contains a few helper functions.

The file public_use_data.csv: Contains a public-use dataset. Note that the following changes have been applied due to restrictions in data sharing agreements

• All death counts below 10 have been suppressed
• City names have been censored

This file contains the following columns:

• Country: BR (Brazil), US (USA), MX (Mexico), or LA (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, and Peru)
• city_id: unique (dummy) city identifier.
• type: type of cause of death (all-cause mortality, large groupings, small groupings)
• category: category of causes of death (all-cause mortality or CMNN/cancer/NCDs/injuries)
• name: specific cause of death
• deaths: number of deaths for 2012-2016 [except SV: 2010-2014] (corrected for undercounting in LA cities, with ill-defined causes redistributed. If <10, suppressed)
• pop: total population for 2012-2016 [except SV: 2010-2014]
• prop0: proportion of the population aged 0-14 for 2012-2016 [except SV: 2010-2014]
• prop15: proportion of the population aged 15-39 for 2012-2016 [except SV: 2010-2014]
• prop40: proportion of the population aged 40-64 for 2012-2016 [except SV: 2010-2014]
• prop65: proportion of the population aged >=65 for 2012-2016 [except SV: 2010-2014]