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. 2020 Oct 22;17:E132. doi: 10.5888/pcd17.200096

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Similar spatial distribution of the unadjusted death rate was observed in both data sets. The CDC data set tended to have higher rates reported in the southern half of the contiguous United States. Unadjusted rate quintiles per 100,000 population are 0.94 to 2.10, 2.11 to 3.31, 3.32 to 5.26, 5.27 to 7.06, and 7.07 to 13.26. The GVA data set tended to have higher rates reported in the northern half. Unadjusted rate quintiles per 100,000 population were the same as for CDC except for the last group, which was 7.07 to 15.27. The rate differences quintiles were −1.04 to −0.36, −0.35 to −0.06, −0.05 to 0.09, 0.10 to 0.2, and 0.29 to 2.50. Data were missing for Vermont. — Spatial distribution of unadjusted death rate per 100,000 population of deaths from gun violence across the contiguous United States, by state, in 2017 in 2 data sets: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) database (1) (panel 1a) and the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) (2) (panel 1b). Panel 1c shows the rate differences between the 2 data sets. Population data are from the US Census Bureau (3).