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Nickel smelters in South Wales, expanded
Description
The data concern a cohort of nickel smelting workers in South Wales,
with information on exposure, follow-up period, and cause of death, as
in the nickel data.
This version has follow-up times split according to age groups and is
merged with the mortality rates in ewrates.
Usage
nickel.expand
Format
A data frame with 3724 observations on the following 12 variables:
agr- age class: 10: 10–14, 15: 15–19, ....
ygr- calendar period, 1931: 1931–35, 1936:
1936–40, ... .
id- subject identifier (numeric).
icd- ICD cause of death if dead, 0 otherwise (numeric).
exposure- exposure index for workplace (numeric).
dob- date of birth (numeric).
age1st- age at first exposure (numeric).
agein- age at start of follow-up (numeric).
ageout- age at end of follow-up (numeric).
lung- lung cancer mortality rate per 1 million person-years.
nasal- nasal cancer mortality rate per 1 million person-years.
other- all cause mortality rate per 1 million person-years.
Source
Computed from nickel and ewrates data sets.
[Package
ISwR version 2.0-2
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