IMASS
International Mortality And Smoking
Statistics
Latest News (Nov 2007)
IMASS v4.02 Now Available
IMASSv4.02 has been released as an update to IMASS v4.01
to fix the following problems :-
- Prevalence plots not displaying all selected Birth
cohort and Sex lines
- Prevalence rank plots by country not displaying all
selected countries.
The data remain unchanged from IMASS v4.01 which
included:-
- Updated population and mortality data from The World
Health Organisation (WHO)
- Updated smoking statistics and sales data from the
recently published International Smoking Statistics (ISS Web edition) chapters and
Supplement 1 update for
Australia, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom & USA
IMASS v4.02 is available free (registration
required) to researchers and academics .
Download:
IMASS v4.02 (free registration required)
IMASS System Details
- A comprehensive Excel database system with smoking related data from 30 different
countries.
- Consumption of tobacco products
- Prevalence of smoking
- Mortality from the
major smoking-related diseases.
- Powerful routines using drop down menu selections for
creating graphs and tables
- Compare data from different countries on one graph
- Combine mortality with prevalence or consumption on one graph
- Produce scatter plots displaying mortality against
consumption or prevalence for multiple countries on one graph
- Ability to lag prevalence or consumption data thus allowing plots of mortality against smoking data from earlier years
- Ranking available
on country plots
IMASS was reviewed in the favourable IJE* review of International Smoking Statistics
(2nd edition). Since then the system has been much improved and updated
resulting in the latest release IMASSv4.01
* International Journal of Epidemiology
(April 2004) ( IJE Review by Debbie A Lawlor)
Download:
IMASS v4.0 (free registration required)
The following example shows the simple use of drop down menu selections to create a typical consumption plot
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------------------------ Period For
Lagging or Averaging ------------------------- |
|
Sex |
Cohort or Age Group |
Tobacco Type |
Start (Youngest) |
End (Oldest) |
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Source |
|
Tar Adjustment |
Relative Scaling |
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