The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (2024)

STEP 1

STEP 2- OPTIONAL

Choose the variables you want in your table.

Certain variables can be limited in your search.

Rows: Year Age Group Race Sex Hispanic Origin Cause of Death County / Areas	Columns: Year Age Group Race Sex Hispanic Origin Cause of Death County / Areas

Hispanic Non-Hispanic Unknown All
Age Group:
Race:
Sex:

Help & Notes Step 1. If you want see your results by a geographic area, you must select county as a row or column variable. If you want to see statistics broken out by year or other variable, you will need to make that variable a row or column variable. You cannot make a variable both a row or column variable. If you select age-group, there are breakouts possible within some age-groups by clicking on the age-group.

Help & Notes Step 2. These selections allow you to filter the resulting table to a specific subcategory. If one of Step 2 variables is also a row or column variable, then applying the filter will have no affect on the output table.

STEP 3

STEP 4 - 4.A & 4.B must be completed

Which year(s) would you like to include in your query?

4.A - Select a button for State, County, Region or Peer Group Statistics.

2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
2020	2021	2022
All Years\|	Clear All

StateCountiesKansas Health Preparedness Regions
Geographical Regions (District Offices)Peer Groups

4.B - Scroll to the above selected category in the list below and select the area or group of areas of interest. NOTE: Area lists will be "greyed out" and non-selectable except for the areas related to the category selected above. To select multiple areas in a give category, hold "Ctrl" Key down while making choices. See "Help & Notes" for further instructions.
NOTE: Counties in a region/group can be determined by viewing the resource maps page.

Help & NotesStep 3. If year is a row or column variable, then the table will display results by single year. If year is not a row or column variable, than the resulting table will aggregate the number of years you check. Data for new years will be added as it becomes available.

Help & NotesStep 4. County/area Selections can only be made within the selected category, no cross category selections are allowed. If after viewing prior results you return to the query criteria page by using your browser's back button, the county/area list will be greyed out. To reactivate your selection click once on your original category. Your county/area selection(s) will be restored and ready for use. If another category is wanted, select it and scroll to the active section of the list.

STEP 5

STEP 6

Select which 'Cause of Death' you wish to view from the following list. If you have selected 'Cause of Death' as your row variable, you may select multiple causes by holding down the control key and selecting the ones you want with the mouse pointer.
An asterisk (*) marks causes designatd by the NCHS as rank-able in choosing leading causes of death. A double asterisk (**) mark pairs of causes which together constitute one rank-able cause.

You can pick how you want to view the data:

Frequencies only
Frequencies and Rates (for number of patients)

Help & Notes Step 5. Select which 'Cause of Death' you wish to view from the following list. If you have selected 'Cause of Death' as your row variable, you may select multiple proceduresby holding down the control key and selecting the ones you want with the mouse pointer.

Help & Notes Step 6. Frequencies is one way of displaying results. Using rates enables one to remove the bias that comes from comparing frequencies from counties or areas of different population. If you plan to compare areas or time periods, then rates or age-adjusted rates should be used. Age-adjusted rates removes the bias of different age-makeups of geographic areas or time periods. This is the best method for comparison.

STEP 7

STEP 8

The following three menus pertain only to rates generated by the query system when "frequencies and rates" is selected in step 6.

Your search is ready. Click the submit button.

** You must select an item from both columns in Step 4 **

Help & Notes Step 7. If you selected frequencies and rates in step 6, you will need to use this section. Crude rates are calculated by default. If you want to use age-adjusted rates select "Age-adjusted Rates."If age-adjusted rates are selected you can choose from the 2000, 1970, or 1940 population standards. The 2000 population standard is default and now is the standard most currently used. However, if you are comparing your findings to a different standard you must use the same standard for your calculation. If you want to calculate confidence intervals for your rates, you can selected 95, 98 or 99 percent confidence intervals. If the confidence intervals of two rates overlap then the difference in them is said to be not statistically significant.