<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:creator>Allegheny County</dc:creator><dc:description>Smoking rates for each Census Tract in Allegheny County were produced for the study "Developing small-area predictions for smoking and obesity prevalence in the United States." The data is not explicitly based on population surveys or data collection conducted in Allegheny County, but rather estimated using statistical modeling techniques. In this technique, researchers applied the smoking rate of a demographically similar Census Tract to one in Allegheny County to compute a smoking rate. ___Support for Health Equity datasets and tools provided by [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://aws.amazon.com/) through their [Health Equity Initiative](https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/nonprofits/global-social-impact/health-equity/).___</dc:description><dc:identifier>allegheny-county-smoking-rates</dc:identifier><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:publisher>Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center Open Data</dc:publisher><dc:rights>Public</dc:rights><dc:subject>Health</dc:subject><dc:title>Allegheny County Smoking Rates</dc:title><dc:type>Datasets</dc:type><dc:coverage>Pennsylvania--Allegheny County</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Pennsylvania</dc:coverage><dc:date>Last Modified: 2024-06-03</dc:date></oai_dc:dc>