Dataset

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the US Census Department as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and, worst of all, the table headers are not easily matched to their rows and columns.

A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.

The tables that were changed (this is table 100):

0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467
0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629
1144 1227 1231

This dataset consists of a table of 46 rows and 29 columns.

See Appendix III

Footnotes

1. Includes other races not shown separately.
2. Based on the proportion of the cohort who are alive at the beginning
   of an indicated age interval who will die before reaching the end of
   that interval. For example, out of every 1,000 people alive and exactly
   50 years old at the beginning of the period, between 4 and 5 (4.86) will
   die before reaching their 51st birthdays.