Scientific Data Documentation
Population File, 1969-1984
DSN: CC36.SEER.POP6984
ABSTRACT
Description of File
This population file was constructed at the National Cancer Institute
(NCI) for the analysis of SEER and other databases. It contains
population data for a specified set of years and geographic areas.
The source of these populations may be the actual counts provided by
the U.S. Census Bureau for one of the decennial census years, 1970 or
1980; estimates for intracensal years or special racial groups
provided by the U. S. Census Bureau; or estimates computed by NCI.
NCI receives population estimates by age, sex, calendar year, county
and race of either white or non-white from the U. S. Census Bureau
from time to time. When this population file was put together, NCI had
only received estimates through 1982 from the Census Bureau. Thus
estimates for 1983 and 1984 were generated by means of a straight line
regression over the preceeding five years of Census Bureau estimates
at the age, sex, race, and county level.
In both Hawaii and New Mexico, NCI took advantage of some special data
to help allocate the estimates by race. In Hawaii, there is some
concern about counting the Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians correctly.
Local data, in particular a modification of the Health Interview
Survey, was used to help determine the racial distribution while
controlling to Census totals. The major effect of this method was to
remove a number of people from the "White" category and place them
into the "Hawaiian" category. In New Mexico, there was a similar
problem but the trade-off was between "White" and "Hispanic".
The population estimates beyond 1980 are not fixed but will continue
to be updated as new estimates are obtained from the Census Bureau. In
fact, since the construction of this file, NCI has received population
estimates from the Census Bureau for 1980, 1982, and 1984. The receipt
of these files and some other data have caused NCI to recompute the
entire population file and to regenerate the estimates into 1985.
There are some differences between the latest file and this file.
Questions regarding data content should be directed to John W. Horm,
NCI-SORB, Blair Bldg. Room 532, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Md.,
20892-4200. Phone: (301) 427-8829.
For a comparison of these racial estimates for the years 1980-1984
with other postcensal population estimates by race (DSN=CC36.INTERCEN.
Y8086R), please see the section on Comparison of Postcensal Population
Estimates.
Data Source
John W. Horm, National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland
Last Update
13 November 1987
RACE/ETHNICITY DATA
The availability of race/ethnic data available vary
considerably; hence these estimates are more reliable in
some areas than in others. NCI recommends that the
Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino data be used only for San
Francisco and Hawaii; that the Hawaiian data be used only
for Hawaii; and that the Hispanic and American Indian data
be used only in New Mexico.
The following table summarizes which races are available
for each geographic area.
Race
Geographic Area 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 20 30 50
San Francisco-Oakland X X X X X X X X
Connecticut X X X X
Metropolitan Detroit X X X X X X X
Hawaii X X X X X X X X
Iowa X X X X X X X
New Mexico X X X X X X X
Seattle (Puget Sound) X X X X
Utah X X X X
Metropolitan Atlanta X X X X X X X
Puerto Rico X X X
New Jersey X X X X
Rural Georgia X X X X
United States X X X X X X X X X
where the races are defined as -
10 White, not of Span Orig
11 White, of Span Orig
12 Total Blacks
13 Amer Indian, Aleut, Esk.
14 Chinese
15 Japanese
16 Filipinos
17 Hawaiians
20 Total Whites
30 Total Nonwhites
50 Total All Races
STANDARD POPULATIONS
Besides containing population estimates for 12 SEER Registries,
the original data file also contained 6 standard populations - five
for the United States for the decennial years 1940 through 1980; and
one for the world. They are as follows -
United States World
Ages 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980
(0-4) 80,000 107,258 113,320 84,416 72,159 120,000
(5-9) 81,000 87,591 104,235 98,204 73,716 100,000
(10-14) 89,000 73,785 93,538 102,304 80,532 90,000
(15-19) 94,000 70,450 73,717 93,845 93,427 90,000
(20-24) 88,000 76,191 60,231 80,561 94,093 80,000
(25-29) 84,000 81,237 60,612 66,320 86,169 80,000
(30-34) 78,000 76,425 66,635 56,249 77,517 60,000
(35-39) 72,000 74,629 69,601 54,656 61,645 60,000
(40-44) 67,000 67,712 64,689 58,958 51,514 60,000
(45-49) 63,000 60,190 60,670 59,622 48,955 60,000
(50-54) 55,000 54,893 53,568 54,643 51,694 50,000
(55-59) 44,000 48,011 47,009 49,077 51,275 40,000
(60-64) 36,000 40,210 39,830 42,403 44,529 40,000
(65-69) 29,000 33,199 34,897 34,406 38,767 30,000
(70-74) 19,000 22,641 26,427 26,789 30,007 20,000
(75-79) 11,000 14,725 17,028 18,871 21,159 10,000
(80-84) 6,000 7,025 8,811 11,241 12,954 5,000
( 85+ ) 3,000 3,828 5,182 7,435 9,888 5,000
Total 1000,000 1000,000 1000,000 1000,000 1000,000 1000,000
COMPARISON OF POSTCENSAL POPULATION ESTIMATES
Although this data base contains more racial detail than is generally
available for non-censal years, the estimates for total population,
whites and blacks can be compared with the postcensal population
estimates developed by Richard Irwin for the years 1980-1986 and
available in the CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 File. The documentation on
methodology available with this database is contained in the first
three paragraphs in the section File Description. The methodology for
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 is covered in that data dictionary under the
section Demo Detail Methodology.
The following table compares the population estimates for the total
population, whites, and blacks from this data base (CC36.SEER.POP6984)
with those from CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 for Seer Registries for the years
1980 and 1984. The table shows the population figures for each year as
well as the ratio of the estimate from CC36.SEER.POP6984 to the
estimate from CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086. Although the two estimates are
never identical, they are usually similar.
Seer Registry - Total Pop Whites Blacks
San Francisco-
1980 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 3,257,702 2,504,746 398,543
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 3,266,981 2,509,043 395,988
*RATIO 99.72 99.83 100.65
1984 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 3,373,252 2,510,468 426,669
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 3,430,873 2,540,759 423,443
*RATIO 98.32 98.81 100.76
Connecticut -
1980 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 3,108,800 2,866,292 223,305
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 3,110,106 2,861,888 221,809
*RATIO 99.96 100.15 100.67
1984 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 3,159,770 2,884,705 244,146
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 3,154,753 2,876,999 241,289
*RATIO 100.16 100.27 101.18
Detroit -
1980 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 4,039,374 3,102,079 894,667
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 4,033,503 3,098,984 886,359
*RATIO 100.15 100.10 100.94
1984 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 3,880,427 2,890,753 937,364
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 3,879,518 2,933,286 892,043
*RATIO 100.02 98.55 105.08
Hawaii -
1980 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 969,077 281,460 16,384
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 978,960 349,847 18,068
*RATIO 98.99 80.45 90.68
1984 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 1,037,225 287,402 20,608
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 1,037,205 375,534 17,556
*RATIO 100.00 76.53 117.38
Iowa -
1980 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 2,915,561 2,853,553 42,182
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 2,913,429 2,851,388 41,854
*RATIO 100.07 100.08 100.78
1984 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 2,910,394 2,839,396 45,114
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 2,903,287 2,832,864 43,850
*RATIO 100.24 100.23 102.88
New Mexico
1980 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 1,307,273 1,167,706 24,464
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 1,310,412 1,168,501 24,546
*RATIO 99.76 99.93 99.67
1984 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 1,419,477 1,264,158 26,283
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 1,425,829 1,256,044 28,098
*RATIO 99.55 100.65 93.54
Seattle -
1980 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 2,769,406 2,540,360 95,596
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 2,770,391 2,539,696 94,430
*RATIO 99.96 100.03 101.23
1984 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 3,029,483 2,749,279 109,875
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 2,916,697 2,633,834 106,127
*RATIO 103.87 104.38 103.53
Utah -
1980 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 1,473,083 1,424,591 9,474
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 1,473,167 1,424,044 9,417
*RATIO 99.99 100.04 100.61
1984 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 1,667,262 1,608,286 10,505
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 1,623,379 1,560,367 10,953
*RATIO 102.70 103.07 95.91
Atlanta -
1980 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 1,694,781 1,214,339 468,072
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 1,698,395 1,218,750 465,270
*RATIO 99.79 99.64 100.60
1984 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 1,831,221 1,277,927 539,769
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 1,862,555 1,324,221 517,343
*RATIO 98.32 96.50 104.33
New Jersey -
1980 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 7,365,454 6,309,090 942,813
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 7,373,604 6,315,946 937,609
*RATIO 99.89 99.89 100.56
1984 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 7,429,984 6,259,106 1,019,065
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 7,516,709 6,349,299 1,002,815
*RATIO 98.85 98.58 101.62
rural Georgia -
1980 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 98,677 47,727 50,822
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 98,790 47,651 50,975
*RATIO 99.89 100.16 99.70
1984 - CC36.SEER.POP6984 101,209 49,201 51,801
CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086 101,118 48,234 52,725
*RATIO 100.09 102.00 98.25
* CC36.SEER.POP6984/CC36.INTERCEN.Y8086
RECORD LAYOUT
This file contains 2566 records. The record layout is
as follows:
Columns Description
------- ----------------------------------------------------------
1-2 Year (69 through 89 and 0 which equals stand-
ard population years)
3-4 Race
0 = Standard population year (valid 69 - 84 only)
10 = Whites not of Spanish origin
11 = Whites of Spanish origin
12 = Blacks
13 = American Indians, Aleuts, Eskimos
14 = Chinese
15 = Japanese
16 = Filipinos
17 = Hawaiians
18 = Other (valid 69 - 84 only)
19 = Unknown (valid 69 - 84 only)
20 = Total whites
30 = Total non-whites
50 = Total all persons
25 and 60 = Undefined codes (valid 69 - 84 only)
5-6 Region/SEER Registry
00 = Not Applicable
01 = California -San Francisco- 5 counties
02 = Connecticut -entire state- 8 counties
20 = Michigan -Detroit- 3 counties
21 = Hawaii -entire state- 4 counties
22 = Iowa -entire state- 99 counties
23 = New Mexico -entire state- 32 counties
25 = Washington -Seattle- 13 counties
26 = Utah -entire state- 29 counties
27 = Georgia -Atlanta- 5 counties
28 = Puerto Rico -entire terr- 76 counties
34 = New Jersey -entire state- 21 counties
37 = Georgia -rural- 10 counties
98 = US (Years 1969-1989)
99 = Standard Population Years (69 - 84 only)
7-8 State name
9-22 Not used for 1969 - 1984 data
For 1985 - 1989, it is as follows:
9 - 12 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA)
13 - 15 County - using 3 digit FIPS codes
16 - 21 Census Tract
0 = not applicable
9999V99 = the four digit basic tract code which may be
followed by a two digit suffix code where V
is an assumed decimal point.
If no suffix is present, two spaces are used.
For example, a census tract consisting of only
a 4 digit basic code and would appear as
0001bb (where b is a space). A census tract
consisting of the basic code and a suffix
would appear as 000101.
22 Month of Census
4 = April - the decennial censuses of 1970, 1980
and 1990 were completed during April.
7 = Intracensal estimates were computed for
July 1 of the year
23 Sex
0 = Standard population year (valid 69-84 only)
1 = Male
2 = Female
24 Not used
25-26 Standard Population Years
space = not applicable
WR = World
40 = 1940
50 = 1950
60 = 1960
70 = 1970
80 = 1980
27-28 Not used, except for 1989 data - in 1989 28 contains the
suppression indicator:
0 = no suppression
1 = all populations suppressed (all cells contain zero)
2 = populations originally suppressed-derived from
existing populations for county.
29-37 Population 0-4
38-46 Population 5-9
47-55 Population 10-14
56-64 Population 15-19
65-73 Population 20-24
74-82 Population 25-29
83-91 Population 30-34
92-100 Population 35-39
101-109 Population 40-44
110-118 Population 45-49
119-127 Population 50-54
128-136 Population 55-59
137-145 Population 60-64
146-154 Population 65-69
155-163 Population 70-74
164-172 Population 75-79
173-181 Population 80-84
182-190 Population 85+
191-200 Total Population
The 5 counties in California are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin,
San Francisco, and San Mateo.
The 3 counties in Michigan are Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne.
The 13 counties in Washington are Clallam, Grays Harbor, Island,
Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Mason, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish,
Thurston, and Whatcom.
The 5 counties around Atlanta are Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton
and Gwinnett.
The 10 counties in rural Georgia are Glascock, Greene, Hancock, Jasper,
Jefferson, Morgan, Putnam, Taliaferro, Warren, and Washington.
Please refer to the table that summarizes which races are available
for each geographic area(Race/Ethnicity Data section) when looking
at race-specific data.
