Age-Adjusted Rate by Direct Standardization (2000 U.S. Standard)

A directly age-standardized rate: age-specific rates weighted by a standard population, the 2000 U.S. standard or your own.

Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.

Example

Standard population
2000 U.S. standard population (19 age groups)
Strata, one per line
0, 0, 1548, 205579 1, 4, 296, 816570 5, 9, 141, 1046504 10, 14, 219, 1131068 15, 19, 734, 1073470 20, 24, 1146, 1020856 25, 34, 2627, 2090312 35, 44, 5993, 2516004 45, 54, 10730, 2225957 55, 64, 16137, 1694574 65, 74, 28959, 1450843 75, 84, 50755, 1056275 85, +, 48486, 359056

Result: Age-standardized rate 787.7 per 100,000

The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.

What you enter

  • Standard population
  • Strata, one per line.
  • Multiplier (default per 100,000)
Full field descriptions
  • Strata, one per line. 2000 standard: youngest, oldest (or +), events, population. Own: label, events, population, standard
How this is calculated

Citation

CDC. Principles of Epidemiology, 3rd ed., Lesson 3, section 3: age-adjusted mortality rates as a weighted average of age-specific rates. NCI SEER: the 2000 U.S. standard population, 19 age groups (Census P25-1130). Read the source ↗

A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.

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Built by Clay Good. Source on GitHub.