TERMS OF USE

Use of Iowa Cancer Registry Zone Maps implies consent to abide by the terms of these data use restrictions. Any effort to determine the identity of any reported cases, or to use the information for any purpose other than for health statistical reporting and analysis, is against the law.

Therefore users will:

Use these data for health statistical reporting and analysis only.
Make no attempt to learn the identity of any person or establishment included in these data.
Make no attempt to link to cancer data released with other geographic areas.
Make no disclosure or other use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently and advise the Iowa Cancer Registry of any such discovery.


FIELDS IN THE CSV DATA FILE

Zone                The CTA Zone ID
Counties            A comma-joined list of counties touching this CTA Zone.
Cities              A comma-joined list of cities within or partly within the CTA Zone. Not all smaller towns and settlements are represented.
URL                 URL to see more information about this CTA Zone at the website.

Sex                 Cancer incidence statistics are aggregated by sex, cancer site, and time period. This is the sex.
Cancer              Cancer incidence statistics are aggregated by sex, cancer site, and time period. This is the cancer site.
Years               Cancer incidence statistics are aggregated by sex, cancer site, and time period. This is the time period.

PopTot              Adjusted population for purposes of calculating AAIR.
AAIR                Age Adjusted Incidence Rate (AAIR) for this sex and cancer site.
LCI                 Lower value of the 95% confidence interval of the AAIR.
UCI                 Upper value of the 95% confidence interval of the AAIR.

TotalPop            Population
Pct100Pov           % Below Poverty Level
PctMinority         % Minority (not non-White Hispanic)
PctHispanic         % Hispanic
PctBlackNH          % Black (non-Hispanic)
PctRural            % Living in Rural Area
PctNoHealthIns		% Without Health Insurance
PctEducBchPlus		% With Bacherlors Degree or Higher
PctEducLHS			% Did Not Finish High School