Another view of deaths

January 15, 2012 by
Filed under: Gun Death? 

One more crack at the numbers.  This time, I only looked at data from 2007 (the most current year available) and I broke out homicides, suicides, and accidents into gun related and non-gun related.  The data here is a little strange.  the CDC system only allows the top 20 categories to be broken out.  Therefore, anything not in the top 20 gets aggregated into “All Others”, which as you can see is my third leading cause of death.  It is likely that there would be more specific causes of death after HIV, but before Non-Gun Homicide.

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2 Comments on Another view of deaths

  1. karrde on Fri, 20th Jan 2012 9:04 pm

    2. Is that top 20 causes of death, or top 24 causes of death?

    I count 24 columns there.

    Anyway, great chart.

  2. George on Sat, 21st Jan 2012 12:15 pm

    3. Karrde,
    I could have explained that better. What I did was take the top 20 causes of death. (Twenty causes, and “All Others”, so 21). Then for the three “gun death” categories (Suicide, Homicide, and Accidental), I separated the results into “Gun Related” and “Non-gun Related), which adds three columns, which gets you to 24.

    Nice handle, by the way!

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