We are committed to ensuring that our work and methodology is accessible and replicable by others. All of the code and data required to replicate our results can be downloaded below.
In order to facilitate further research and reporting on health inequality in the United States, we are providing 16 formatted data tables in Excel and Stata formats, along with documentation for each table. These tables contain life expectancy estimates at age 40 by income and sex at various levels of geographic and temporal aggregation. In addition to life expectancy estimates, we provide estimates of trends in life expectancy by geographic area and an extensive set of commuting zone and county-level covariates.
Each of the 16 data tables published below and all of the code we have written is released to the public domain under a CC0 license to permit the widest possible reuse. If you use our code or data, we ask that you cite our 2016 JAMA paper.
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Published Figures, Tables and Numbers in JAMA Manuscript |
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Life Expectancy Rankings for 100 Most Populated Local Areas |
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Commuting Zone Boundaries (1990 Definition) |
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Replication Code and Data |
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Complete Set of Formatted Data Tables with Codebook |
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National |
Life expectancy estimates |
Gender Income Percentile |
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National |
Life expectancy estimates |
Year Gender Income Percentile |
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State |
Life expectancy estimates |
State Gender Income Quartile |
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State |
Life expectancy trends estimates |
State Gender Income Quartile |
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State |
Life expectancy estimates |
State Year Gender Income Quartile |
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CZ1 |
Life expectancy estimates |
CZ Gender Income Quartile |
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CZ2 |
Life expectancy estimates |
CZ Gender Income Ventile |
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CZ3 |
Life expectancy trends estimates |
CZ Gender Income Quartile |
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CZ3 |
Life expectancy estimates |
CZ Year Gender Income Quartile |
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CZ |
Characteristics (described in eTable 9) |
CZ |
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County1 |
Life expectancy estimates |
County Gender Income Quartile |
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County |
Characteristics (described in eTable 9) |
County |
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International |
Mean life expectancy at age 40 |
Country Gender |
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National |
Population and Death Counts in tax data and NCHS data |
Gender Age Year |
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National |
Mortality Rates |
Gender Age Year Income Percentile |
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National |
Mortality Rates |
Gender Age Year Ind. Inc. Percentile |
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1: Includes CZs or counties with populations larger than 25,000.
2: Includes CZs with populations larger than 250,000.
3: Includes the 100 largest CZs, with populations larger than 590,000.