Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality - Age-Specific Counts

Name: Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality - Age-Specific Counts
Creator: AIHW
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

One row per year, sex, measure type, and cancer type with counts by age band for Australian cancer incidence and mortality. Coverage spans 1968-2011 for 35 cancer types, with separate incidence and mortality rows and male, female, and persons breakdowns. Values are counts rather than rates, with age bands from 0-4 through 85 plus and an age-unknown field.

aihw-7fbac314-4bf9-4601-b812-0307316ef5a4·23 columns·160 KB·Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)·updated 2mo ago

Source: AIHW · connector code

Schema

year	int64
sex	string
type	string
cancer_type	string
age_0_to_4	double
age_5_to_9	double
age_10_to_14	double
age_15_to_19	double
age_20_to_24	double
age_25_to_29	double
age_30_to_34	double
age_35_to_39	double
age_40_to_44	double
age_45_to_49	double
age_50_to_54	double
age_55_to_59	double
age_60_to_64	double
age_65_to_69	double
age_70_to_74	double
age_75_to_79	double
age_80_to_84	double
age_85_plus	double
age_unknown	double

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