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. 2014 Oct 10;11(10):10419–10443. doi: 10.3390/ijerph111010419

Table A5.

White male high lung cancer data dictionary.

Label Variables Meaning
%DEM 3 percent voters registered or voted Democratic 2004–2008
%REP 3 percent voters registered or voted Republican 2004–2008
B POP + LBW 6 black isolation index 2000, low birth weight, percent non-Hispanic blacks 2008, percent black/African-American population, unmarried and very low birth weight
B POP + SEG 3 black isolation index 2000, percent non-Hispanic blacks 2008, percent black/African-American population
HOSP BEDS 5 rate hospital beds: licensed, community hospital, hospital, licensed short term, short term and total inpatient
MD SPEC + NEONATAL 3 rate total neurosurgery, neonatal intensive beds and total thoracic surgery total patient care
MED CARE USE 1 6 rate hospital admission: community hospital, hospital, short term hospital. surgical operations: inpatient, outpatient, total
MIXED MD SPEC1 10 rate MDs in patient care 2005, office based on non-office based and some specialties
MIXED MD SPEC3 3 rate MDs hospital residents, pathologists and psychologists
PERS DEPRIV 3 percent persistent poverty and child poverty.
POV + PUB ASST + UNEQUAL 7 percent free lunch, foodstamp recipients, medicaid eligible and poverty rate
W DEPRIV + DISABILITY 9 percent households in poverty, lower than HS education and medicare disability enrollment
W INC 3 household income white
W POP 3 white isolation index 2000, percent non-Hispanic whites 2008, percent black/African-American population