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Life Expectancy by Census Tract
| December 22nd, 2018 at 5:53:16 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | The Census Bureau has started to publish life expectancy by census tract. A tract is like a neighborhood of a few thousand people. Boy, that is an eye-opener. In Pennsylvania, life expectancy ranges from 91.9 years in the Main Line Philadelphia neighborhood (think of the movie Philadelphia Story) down as low as 60 years in a suburb near Pittsburgh. When I think of life expectancies near age 60, I am thinking sub-Saharan Africa 61.8 Niger 61.8 Tanzania 61.8 Zambia 61.4 Liberia 61.1 Gambia 60.7 Zimbabwe 60.5 Afghanistan 60.0 Benin 59.9 Burkina Faso 59.9 Togo 59.8 DR Congo 59.6 Burundi 59.0 Guinea 58.9 Guinea-Bissau 58.9 Eswatini (Swaziland) 58.3 Malawi 58.2 Mali 58.2 Equatorial Guinea |
| December 22nd, 2018 at 6:25:34 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5109 | since I'd expect the death-at-birth distortion, whatever that is properly called, to be a bigger factor for the worst places in the world you list, that makes me think the 60 year spots in the US might mean those who get past the infant mortality stage in those PA bad spots are expected to live not much longer, or even no longer, than in Equatorial Guinea apparently there has been a big decline due to the opioid epidemic I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| December 22nd, 2018 at 6:34:32 AM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212 |
Which suburb? The President is a fink. |
| December 22nd, 2018 at 7:35:01 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I think that this center is in the tract http://forbesrehab.com/ You have to go to this map and search for 1208 to see exact boundaries https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/tract/st42_pa/c42003_allegheny/DC10CT_C42003_002.pdf Nevada varies from age 64.0 to 86.1 which is a little tighter than PA. Nationwide the 65,662 census tracts go from 56.3 in Oklahoma to 97.5 in North Carolina. |
| December 22nd, 2018 at 8:26:37 AM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 | Interesting. I wonder how they do the forecast? I don't think they would be sophisticated enough to take into account access to health care nor occupation? Coal miners row houses vs. Retirement communities? |
| December 22nd, 2018 at 8:37:44 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
It's in the report. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_02/sr02_181.pdf I actually wrote to the census department once. I have an M.S. in mathematics and I had some question about the validity of some of the calculations. They said nobody has ever questioned them. |