Mortality – Life Expectancy (Census Tract)
This indicator reports the average life expectancy at birth. Life expectancy measures the average number of years from birth a person can expect to live, according to the current mortality experience (age-specific death rates) of the population. Life expectancy takes into account the number of deaths in a given time period and the average number of people at risk of dying during that period, allowing us to compare data across census tracts with different population sizes.
Note: Data are suppressed for areas with fewer than 5,000 total population (pooled) during the study period.
Source
Source Description
The U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP) is a partnership of NCHS, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) to produce a new measure of health for where you live. The USALEEP project produced estimates of life expectancy at birth—the average number of years a person can expect to live—for most of the census tracts in the United States for the period 2010-2015.
Methodology
This indicator reports the life expectancy at birth for the 6-year period 2010-2015. More for information about this layer and the abridged period life tables used to estimate census-tract life expectancy, please see the methodology developed for this project and described in the report:
Arias E, Escobedo LA, Kennedy J, Fu C, Cisewski J. U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project: Methodology and Results Summary. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 2(181). 2018.
Data Breakouts Available
- Period Life Table (2010-2015)
- Life Expectancy (2010-2015) – Geographic Disparity
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