The surgeon general has been warning us for years. I took a look the at Causes of Death data from 2012. Yep - turns out that it's true.
I am always surprised by how many interesting stories a dataset can tell. The latest StatsSA release of the Causes of Death dataset (2012) has a lot to say about death trends in South Africa. We always hear about HIV, TB, maternal and child deaths as leading causes of morbidity in South Africa. I am more interested in the micro-patterns. Here are some anecdotes:
If you are going to die of cancer, your likelihood peaks at around 62 years. If you are a non-smoker, that likelihood shifts to 65 years. The data includes just under 14,000 cancer deaths. From those, we can see that smokers simply don’t live as long as non-smokers.
In short, these revelations are nothing new. It is still satisfying to see that the data confirms it.
My next project - is it true that married men do actually live longer than their bachelor counterparts?
The surgeon general has been warning us for years. I took a look the at Causes of Death data from 2012. Yep - turns out that it's true.
I am always surprised by how many interesting stories a dataset can tell. The latest StatsSA release of the Causes of Death dataset (2012) has a lot to say about death trends in South Africa. We always hear about HIV, TB, maternal and child deaths as leading causes of morbidity in South Africa. I am more interested in the micro-patterns. Here are some anecdotes:
If you are going to die of cancer, your likelihood peaks at around 62 years. If you are a non-smoker, that likelihood shifts to 65 years. The data includes just under 14,000 cancer deaths. From those, we can see that smokers simply don’t live as long as non-smokers.
In short, these revelations are nothing new. It is still satisfying to see that the data confirms it.
My next project - is it true that married men do actually live longer than their bachelor counterparts?