Rick Cassinelli II, Kevin J. Kock, Kyle Steenland, Stephen Spaeth, Patricia Laber
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Division of Surveillance, Hazards Evaluation, and Field Studies
Cincinnati, Ohio
email
pcltas@cdc.gov
Version of March 1, 2000
This manual and PC LTAS are in the public domain and may be freely copied.
1.0 Introduction/Acknowledgments
2.0 NIOSH Life Table Analyses: An Overview
2.1 Lagging exposures
2.2 Proportionate Mortality Ratio
3.1 Installation
3.2 File List
3.3 Recommended Computer System Configuration
3.4 Performance
4.0 How to Run a Life Table Analysis
4.1 Required Files
4.2 Using the Programs
4.3 Program Steps for Creating a Life Table
4.4 Projects.
4.5 Project Parameters input screen.
4.6 Help.
4.7 Exit.
7.1 Reports.
7.2 Report Options.
7.3 Printing Options.
7.4 Select Majors/Minors.
8.1 Export
8.2 Display Rates
8.3 Deceased Listing
9.0 Parameters and System Features Defined
10.0 Limits of LTAS Parameters
APPENDIX A. | Glossary |
APPENDIX B. | Quick Start |
APPENDIX C. | Export File Format |
APPENDIX D. | Table D-1: Details of fields in the Demographics File |
APPENDIX E. | Table E-1: Details of fields in the Work History File |
APPENDIX F. | Table F-1: Details of fields in the Exposure File |
APPENDIX G. | How to build a structure file |
APPENDIX H. | Rate File with example |
APPENDIX I. | How to build a rate data file |
APPENDIX J. | Additional details of the Verify step |
APPENDIX K. | Table K-1: Relation between NIOSH 92 death categories and
International Classification of Disease (ICD) groupings |
APPENDIX L. | Table L-1: Expanded NIOSH Death Categories: NIOSH 99 |
APPENDIX M. | Table M-1: NIOSH Categories for SEER Cancer Incidence Rate File |
APPENDIX N. | Printer configuration with NEWPRTRS.EXE |
Figure 3.1. | Installation screen as it first appears. |
Figure 3.2. | Install asks for the last diskette before it asks for the first diskette. |
Figure 3.3. | Install asks for the second diskette. |
Figure 4.1. | Two typical lines in a demographics file. |
Figure 4.2. | Two typical lines in a work history file. |
Figure 4.3. | Two typical lines in a personal exposure file. |
Figure 4.4. | Two typical lines in an area exposure file. |
Figure 4.5. | LTAS Main Menu screen. |
Figure 4.6. | LTAS screen showing Projects pop-up window. |
Figure 4.7. | LTAS menu with pop-up screen for opening an existing project (Parameter) file. |
Figure 4.8. | LTAS screen for entering initial parameters. |
Figure 5.1. | LTAS Verify screen. |
Figure 5.2. | LTAS Verify: using the "Browse" button to find a file. |
Figure 5.3. | LTAS Verify Exposure Data: no exposure data |
Figure 5.4. | LTAS Verify Exposure Data: Screen to define exposures and to include or exclude plants, departments, operations. |
Figure 5.5. | LTAS Verify Exposure Data: defining an exposure file |
Figure 5.6. | LTAS Verify: end of program. |
Figure 5.7. | Summary.rpt file, first of two pages |
Figure 5.8. | Summary.rpt file, second of two pages |
Figure 5.9. | Verify exceptions report -- errors listed by worker number. |
Figure 5.10. | Verify report on errors in an exposure file. |
Figure 6.1. | LTAS Stratify screen. |
Figure 6.2. | Personal Cumulative Dose report "pcd.rpt." |
Figure 6.3. | Personal Cumulative Dose option. |
Figure 6.4. | Progress report window for the Stratify step. |
Figure 7.1. | Analyze screen. |
Figure 7.2. | Choice of printers in Analyze. |
Figure 7.3. | Minor 16 chosen for direct standardization in Analyze. |
Figure 7.4. | A parameters list is printed with each report. |
Figure 7.5. | Summary of Person Years, page one of two. |
Figure 7.6. | Summary of Person Years, page two of two. |
Figure 7.7. | Portion of output for observed/expected comparison by age group and calendar period (all races and sexes combined). |
Figure 7.8. | Portion of output for observed/expected comparison by duration of exposure and time since first exposure. |
Figure 7.9. | Portion of output from a direct standardization run. |
Figure 7.10. | Portion of output for observed/expected comparison by duration of exposure and time since first exposure with a five-year lag period. |
Figure 7.11. | Portion of output from Major/Minor Summary. |
Figure 8.1. | Utilize menu |
Figure 8.2. | LTAS Export screen. |
Figure 8.3. | LTAS Display Rates screen showing pop-up window for selection of calendar period. |
Figure 8.4. | LTAS Display Rates screen showing observed rates for the NIOSH minors. |
Figure 8.5. | Deceased Listing |
Figure 8.6. | Deceased Listing for a multiple cause run. |
Figure 8.7. | Deceased Listing prints to a text file. |
Table 4-1: | Summary of Demographics File |
Table 4-2: | Summary of Work History File |
Table 4-3: | Summary of Exposure File |
Table 6-1: | Summary of Personal Cumulative Dose report |
Table 8-1: | Summary of Deceased Listing |
Table 10-1: | Limits of LTAS Parameters |
Table D-1: | Details of fields in the Demographics File |
Table E-1: | Details of fields in the Work History File |
Table F-1: | Details of fields in the Exposure File |
Table I-1: | Format for raw rates input file for BldRate.exe |
Table J-1: | Verify step: conditions and corrections |
Table J-2: | List of fatal errors for Verify step |
Table J-3: | Verify Exceptions Report error messages |
Table J-4: | Verify exposure file exceptions report errors listing |
Table K-1: | Relation between NIOSH 92 death categories and International Classification of Disease (ICD) groupings |
Table L-1: | Expanded NIOSH Death Categories: NIOSH 99 |
Table M-1: | NIOSH Categories for SEER Cancer Incidence Rate File. |
Table N-1: | Printer control codes in "printers.lt" file |
Table N-2: | Dot matrix printers -- selected control codes. |
Table N-3: | HP LaserJet series -- selected control codes. |
Table N-4: | ASCII characters |