By Anonymous - May 7, 2019
STATE / REGION
STATE contains the state at which the subject has lived the longest, taking into account:
* LIVLOCL: the number of years a subject has lived within 10 miles of their current address and
* censoring dates appropriate to the outcome (e.g. mortality, incidence of cancer).
Due to the number of sparsely represented states, our imputation function aregImpute() throws an error when imputing STATE. This is circumvented by grouping subjects into REGION of the country.
| REGION | STATE |
|---|---|
| New England | ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA |
| East North Central | OH, IN, IL, MI, WI |
| West North Central | MN, IA, MO, ND, SD, NE, KS |
| South Atlantic | DE, MD, DC, VA, WV, NC, SC, GA, FL |
| East South Central | KY, TN, AL, MS |
| West South Central | AR, LA, OK, TX |
| Mountain | MT, ID, WY, CO, NM, AZ, UT, NV |
| Pacific | WA, OR, CA, AK, HI |
| Canada | AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT |