SEER 1973-2001 Public-Use Data
The SEER Public-Use Data include SEER incidence and population data associated by age, sex,
race, year of diagnosis, and geographic areas (including SEER registry and county). A signed
SEER Public-Use Data Agreement is required to access these data. Use of these
data for publication purposes should contain a citation which includes submission and release dates. See Citations for SEER Public-Use Data and SEER*Stat Software for specific suggestions regarding the citation format.
Documentation for the SEER Public-Use Data
SEER 9 Registry Database
The SEER 9 registries are Atlanta, Connecticut, Detroit, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, San Francisco-Oakland, Seattle-Puget Sound,
and Utah. In this data set, cases diagnosed from 1973 through 2001 are available for all registries except
Seattle-Puget Sound (1974+) and Atlanta (1975+). The database contains one record for each of 2,980,928
tumors. Cases are associated to the population data using three racial groups: White, Black, and Other.
SEER 11 Registry Database
The SEER 11 registries consist of the SEER 9, as listed above, plus Los Angeles and San Jose-Monterey.
In this data set, cases diagnosed from 1992 through 2001 are available, one record for each of 1,741,599
tumors. Cases are associated to the population data using four racial/ethnic groups:
White Non-Hispanic, White Hispanic, Non-White Non-Hispanic, and Non-White Hispanic.
The SEER 11 Registries are maintained in separate SEER*Stat databases in order to link populations in
sessions which require population data stratified by Hispanic ethnicity
(for example, rate and prevelance sessions). Otherwise, the SEER 11
registry data are included in databases with data from the Alaska Native Tumor Registry, as described below.
SEER 11 Registry + Alaska Database
This database contains data from the SEER 11 registries (listed above) and the Alaska Native Tumor Registry.
In population-linked versions of these data,
cases diagnosed from 1992 through 2001 are available, one record for each of 1,744,343 tumors. Cases are
associated to the population data using four racial groups: White, Black, American Indian/Alaska Native,
Asian/Pacific Islander. The other category used in the SEER 9 Registry database consists of American Indian/Alaska Native and
Asian/Pacific Islander combined.
In SEER*Stat sessions that do not require population data (e.g., frequencies, survival, case listing),
all public data for SEER registries are included in one database (SEER 11 Registry + Alaska 1973-2001 with varying
years of diagnosis per registry). This database
includes 3,448,629 tumors diagnosed from 1973-2001 for the registries other than
Seattle-Puget Sound (1974+), Atlanta (1975+), Los Angeles (1992+), San Jose-Monterey (1992+), and Alaska
Native Tumor Registry (1992+).
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