# Scotland Lip Cancer Data

Data provided "as is," no warranties.

File Description
Male lip cancer cases in Scottish districts 1975-80 and male population years at risk.

scotdistricts.txt: | ASCII boundary files in GeoDa format (scotdistricts*.txt working versions, only final counts)
scotlipdata.dbf: | Dbf file with actual data (needed to join with base map)
scotdistricts.dbf, shp, shx: | Shape file created from scotdistricts.txt
scotlip.dbf, shp, shx: | Shape file created by joining scotdistricts with scotlipdata

Type = Polygon shape files
Observations = 56
Variables = 8

Source
Original from Clayton, D., and Kaldor, J. (1987). Empirical Bayes estimates of age standardised relative risks for use in disease mapping. Biometrics, 43,671-681, reproduced from Cressie, N. A. C. (1993). Statistics for Spatial Data. New York: John Wiley & Sons, p. 537 Table 7.2.

Expected cases and percent of population in outdoor industry AFF (agriculture, fishing, forestry) from Lawson et al. (1999). Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health. New York: Wiley, pp. 68-69, Table 5.1.

Base map from Scotland.map included with WinBugs, exported to S-Plus format and edited (conversion to GeoDa input format, elimination of duplicate coordinates and editing of sliver polygons); islands with multiple polygons represented by a single polygon.

Variable | Description
CODENO | Code converted to numeric (drop w prefix)
RECORD_ID | Unique ID
DISTRICT | District number 1-56
NAME | Name of districts from Cressie
CODE | District code from WinBugs
CANCER | Lip cancer cases from Cressie
POP | Population years at risk from Cressie
CEXP | Expected cases from Lawson et al.
AFF | Outdoor industry from Lawson et al.

Prepared by Luc Anselin.

Last updated June 3, 2004