What is the US standard population?
What is the US standard population?
Standard populations, often referred to as standard millions, are the age distributions used as weights to create age-adjusted statistics. Files containing standard population data for use in statistical software are available below.
How is standard population calculated?
Age-specific rate, 0 to 39 years. = 1,345 (number of deaths) ÷ 17,068,876 (total population) × 100,000. = 7.9 cancer deaths per 100,000 population. We then multiply each of the age-specific rates by the proportion of the 1991 population belonging to the particular age group (called the standard population weight).
What is the WHO standard age group classification?
Datasets
| Age Group | WHO World Standard (%) | Rounded to Integers |
|---|---|---|
| 0-4 | 8.860 | 88,569 |
| 5-9 | 8.690 | 86,870 |
| 10-14 | 8.600 | 85,970 |
| 15-19 | 8.470 | 84,670 |
What are standard age groups?
It is common in demography to split the population into three broad age groups:
- children and young adolescents (under 15 years old)
- the working-age population (15-64 years) and.
- the elderly population (65 years and older)
What percentage of the US population is white?
Table
| Population | |
|---|---|
| Persons 65 years and over, percent | 16.5% |
| Female persons, percent | 50.8% |
| Race and Hispanic Origin | |
| White alone, percent | 76.3% |
How do you read SMR?
What does the SMR mean?
- SMR < 1.0 indicates there were fewer than expected deaths in the study population.
- SMR = 1.0 indicates the number of observed deaths equals the number of expected deaths in the study population.
- SMR >1.0 indicates there were more than expected deaths in the study population (excess deaths)
How is SMR calculated?
STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO (abbreviated SMR) is the number of observed deaths in the study population divided by the number of expected deaths (calculated from indirect adjustment) and multiplied by 100 (Lilienfeld & Stolley, 1994; Last, 2001).
