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This population file has been constructed primarily for use with SEER and total United States cancer incidence and mortality data. Data contain detailed race populations for all the SEER areas identified in the dates of this collection, excluding rural Georgia, Arizona, and New Jersey. Data for the entire United States and Puerto Rico are included. These data are estimates produced from the 1970 and 1980 U.S. Census of Population and Housing, and some inter-censal estimates of white and non-white supplied by the Census Bureau. Using the racial distribution of the 1970 and 1980 censuses at the age and sex-specific level, the data contain an allocation of the non-white 1971-1979 estimates into the details racial groups. Race groups include: White non-Hispanic, White Hispanic, Black, American Indian, Aleuts and Eskimo, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Hawaiian, total White, total non-White, and total persons. Variables include: population year, race, SEER registry, state, SMSA, county, tract, month of census, sex, population under 5 years of age, between 5 and 9 years of age and additional ages in increments of 5 years, population 85 years and older, and a total for all ages.
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