Allegheny County Smoking Rates

Smoking rates for each Census Tract in Allegheny County were produced for the study “Developing small-area predictions for smoking and obesity prevalence in the United States.” The data is not explicitly based on population surveys or data collection conducted in Allegheny County, but rather estimated using statistical modeling techniques. In this technique, researchers applied the smoking rate of a demographically similar Census Tract to one in Allegheny County to compute a smoking rate.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Public Access Level Comment
Temporal Coverage 1991-2010
Geographic Unit Census Tract
Data Notes

The data was pulled from the study "developing small area predictions for smoking and obesity prevalence in the United States for use in Environmental Public Health Tracking" - Ortega Hinojosa AM, Davies MM, Jarjour S. et al.

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