VSA {R4HCR} | R Documentation |
Volatile Substance Abuse Mortality in Great Britain, 1971-83.
Description
Mortaility associated with volatile substance abuse (VSA).This study collated all known death associated with VSA from 1971 to 1983 (inclusively).
Usage
VSA
Format
A data frame with 9 observations on the following 4 variables.
age
Age band in nine categories
0-9
,10-14
,15-19
,20-24
,25-29
,30-39
,40-49
,50-59
,60+
.country
The country in which the deaths were recorded (
Great Britain
orScotland
).pop
Population size of the age band.
deaths
The number of deaths associated with VSA per age band.
Details
The data was taken from Bland (2015), who cites Anderson et al (1985) as the source of the data. Note that Scotland is one of the three countries that make up Great Britain, along with England and Wales.
Source
Bland, M., 2015. An introduction to medical statistics. Oxford University Press.
References
Anderson, H.R., Macnair, R.S. and Ramsey, J.D., 1985. Deaths from abuse of volatile substances: a national epidemiological study. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed), 290(6464), pp.304-307.
Examples
data(VSA, package = "R4HCR")