Weekly mortality data from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) surveillance system, published on data.cdc.gov. The dataset includes counts of deaths from pneumonia, influenza, and all causes, broken down by state, region, age, and season. The data was last updated on 2019-04-05.
Use Cases
- Analyze seasonal trends in pneumonia and influenza mortality using MMWR Year/Week, season, and Deaths from pneumonia and influenza (inferred from domain, verify after download).
- Compare regional mortality impacts using Region, State, and geoid columns against All Deaths totals (inferred from domain, verify after download).
- Calculate the proportion of deaths attributable to P&I by week using Pecent of deaths due to pneumonia or influenza and All Deaths (inferred from domain, verify after download).
Strengths
- Published on the authoritative data.cdc.gov platform via Socrata.
- Includes multiple breakdowns such as state, region, age, and season across 12 listed columns.
- Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Last updated 2019-04-05 15:00:14; freshness should be verified.
- Row count and total data size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- National Center For Health Statistics (NCHS) Mortality Surveillance System via data.cdc.gov.
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from state and regional mortality reports submitted to the NCHS surveillance system.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2019-04-05.
- Geography
- United States, by state and region.