The supplemental .zip archive for this publication contains the following files: 

1. Stata dataset "NHANES.dta"
This a Stata dataset containing publically-available data downloaded from the NHANES 
website (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/). More information on the variables included 
in the download is available in the "format_data" do-file.

2. Stata do-file "format_data"
This do-file formats the NHANES data. It should be executed first (after changing the
location of the working directory).

3. Stata do-file "analysis"
This do-file contains the code necessary to replicate the numbers presented in the 
text, tables, and figures. It should be executed after the above do-file (after
changing the working directory).

4. Excel spreadsheet "2000_census_age"
This file has two tabs. The first, "Census 200 Age Distribution," contains the age 
distribution in the 2000 US Census which is used for all of the age-standardizations
in the paper. The data was downloaded from the Centers for Disease Control website 
(more information here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/statnt/statnt20.pdf). The 
second tab "Census 2000 ASCDR" calculates the ASCDR using the Deaths data contained
in Minino et al., and cited in Section 3.1.

The Stata files were created using Stata Version 15 and may not be compatible with 
earlier versions.