Standard Populations (Millions) for Age-Adjustment
Standard populations, often referred to as standard millions, are the age distributions used as weights to create age-adjusted statistics. Files containing standard population data for use in statistical software are available below. These contain the same data distributed with the SEER*Stat software. SEER also provides US Population Data which can be used for analyses with SEER*Stat or other software.
Starting with the November 2004 SEER submission of data (diagnoses through 2002), the SEER Program age-adjusts using the 2000 US standard population based on single years of age from the Census P25-1130 (PDF)1 series estimates of the 2000 US population. For the 5-year age groups, the single year of age populations are summarized from the five single-year of age populations. See 2000 US Standard Population vs. Standard Million for more discussion.
Standard Population Files
The standard population data files contain the following data:
- US Standards (1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000)
- World (Segi 1960) Standard2
- Canadian Standards (1991, 1996)
- European (Scandinavian 1960) Standard2
View the Standard Populations
- Standard Populations - 19 Age Groups (0, 1-4, 5-9, 10-14, ..., 85+)
- Standard Populations - Single Ages (2000 US std population only)
Download the Data Files
File format information is provided in the Standard Population Data Dictionary.
- Standard Populations - 19 Age Groups (0, 1-4, 5-9, 10-14, ..., 85+)
- Standard Populations - 18 Age Groups (0-4, 5-9, 10-14, ..., 85+)
- Standard Populations - Single Ages to 84 and then 85+ (2000 US std population only)
- Standard Populations - Single Ages to 99 and then 100+ (2000 US std population only)
1 Day, Jennifer Cheeseman, Population Projections of the United States by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1995 to 2050, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, P25-1130, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996. (http://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1130/p251130.pdf)
2 The labels for these standards were updated on November 1, 2012 to clarify which standards they correspond to, but the data did not change. Documentation for the standards are in the World Health Organization's publication, Discussion Paper 31: Age Standardization of Rates: A New WHO Standard (PDF)