NJ Mortality Data Query Outcome Measure Selection
- Select a measure of interest from those listed below. Click its text link to go to the corresponding query builder page.
- For further explanation of the measures, hover your cursor over the selection bar and a description of the measure will appear. Question mark bubbles
to the right of some items provide additional information for those measures. - Queryable mortality data for 1968-1999 are available on CDC WONDER.
- Mortality dataset help and documentation
- Provisional 2021-2022 death data query module (updated at least weekly)
- Counts
Crude Rate
A crude rate is a fraction, in which the numerator is the number of people in whom an event occurred during a certain period of time, and the denominator is the total number of people in the population at risk for the same period of time.- Age-adjusted Rates - Statewide
- Age-adjusted Rates - Counties
- Age-adjusted Rates - Large Municipalities
Rates for Municipalities
Detailed population estimates necessary for age-adjustment calculations are only available for municipalities with 65,000 or more residents.
- Average Age at Death
- Counts
Crude Rate
A crude rate is a fraction, in which the numerator is the number of people in whom an event occurred during a certain period of time, and the denominator is the total number of people in the population at risk for the same period of time.- Age-adjusted Rates - Statewide
- Age-adjusted Rates - Counties
- Age-adjusted Rates - Large Municipalities
Rates for Municipalities
Detailed population estimates necessary for age-adjustment calculations are only available for municipalities with 65,000 or more residents.
- Average Age at Death
