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Table 2 All-cause mortality rates of US adults aged 20 to 84 years (per 1,000 person-years and 95% CI) by calendar year using discretized survival time, NVSS and NHIS follow-up

From: Using multi-year national survey cohorts for period estimates: an application of weighted discrete Poisson regression for assessing annual national mortality in US adults with and without diabetes, 2000–2006

 

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

National Vital Statistics System

 All-cause deaths, n

1,690,834

1,697,147

1,708,100

1,706,555

1,672,235

1,691,092

1,671,006

 Population, n

196,709,054

199,749,920

202,082,985

204,215,941

206,505,061

208,818,040

211,189,565

 All-cause mortality (M0)a

8.60

8.50

8.45

8.36

8.10

8.10

7.91

NHIS mortality follow-up with the post-stratification sampling weights

 All-cause deaths, n

614

874

1,124

1,417

1,638

1,869

2,046

 Sample adults, n

60,395

86,722

114,050

141,678

166,593

190,342

214,530

 Person-years

60,070

86,274

113,501

140,958

165,769

189,394

212,803

 All-cause mortality (M1)b

8.81 (8.00, 9.62)

8.45 (7.75, 9.14)

8.35 (7.77, 8.93)

8.39 (7.89, 8.89)

7.98 (7.54, 8.42)

8.11 (7.65, 8.58)

7.94 (7.56, 8.33)

NHIS mortality follow-up with original sampling weights

 All-cause mortality (M2)b

8.99 (8.17, 9.82)

8.80 (8.08, 9.52)

8.67 (8.07, 9.28)

8.83 (8.31, 9.36)

8.41 (7.95, 8.87)

8.58 (8.10, 9.06)

8.36 (7.95, 8.77)

 (M2 – M1)

0.18 (−0.97, 1.33)

0.35 (−0.65, 1.35)

0.32 (−0.53, 1.17)

0.44 (−0.29, 1.17)

0.43 (−0.19, 1.05)

0.47 (−0.18, 1.12)

0.42 (−0.15, 0.99)

  1. aAll-cause mortality from the NVSS was calculated as the number of the US all-cause deaths divided by the total US adults
  2. bAll-cause mortality from the NHIS was calculated as the weighted number of deaths divided by the total weighted person-years