Electronic Supplementary Material 1 Census tract exclusions for Krieger’s and Yost’s indices at 2000 and 2005-09, SEER 17 combined*

Krieger et al. (2002) / Yost et al. (2001)
Census 2000 / ACS 2005-09 / Census 2000 / ACS 2005-09
Total number of tracts / 15,407 / 15,407 / 15,407 / 15,407
Exclusion criterion / 191 / 301 / 104 / 503
No estimated population / 50 / 50 / 50 / 50
No estimated population aged 16+ yrs / 89 / 103 / 89 / 103
No population aged 16+ yrs and employed / 92 / 106 / 92 / 106
No population aged 25+ yrs / 66 / 72 / 66 / 72
No occupied housing units / 96 / 102 / N/A / N/A
No owner occupied housing units(or not sufficient sample) / 187 / 297 / N/A** / 297
No renter occupied housing units (or not sufficient sample) / N/A / N/A / N/A** / 340
No households / 99 / 128 / 98 / 128
Number of tracts available for analysis / 15,216 / 15,106 / 15,303 / 14,904

Note: *Alaska Native Tumor Registry and Louisiana Tumor Registry are excluded.

**The 2000 census assigned a value of zero to the median house value for census tracts with no owner occupied housing unit and median gross rent for census tracts with no renter occupied housing units.

N/A= not applicable

ACS = American Community Survey

Electronic Supplementary Material 2 Cancer case exclusions by type of analysis, site, diagnosis year, and SES index, SEER 17 combined*

/ All Malignant Cases (N) / Exclusions for Rate Analysis / Exclusions for Survival Analysis /
W/O Age (%) / W/O SES (%) / 2nd+
Primaries (%) / Others**
(%) / W/O SES (%) /
Breast / 2000-02 / Krieger / 144,540 / 0.01 / 0.63 / 14.90 / 1.27 / 0.50 /
Yost / 0.57 / 0.45 /
2006-08 / Krieger / 148,719 / 0.00 / 0.65 / - / - / - /
Yost / 1.63 / - / - / - /
Colorectal / 2000-02 / Krieger / 103,209 / 0.00 / 0.73 / 19.00 / 1.77 / 0.55 /
Yost / 0.66 / 0.49 /
2006-08 / Krieger / 98,986 / 0.00 / 0.84 / - / - / - /
Yost / 1.73 / - / - / - /
Lung / 2000-02 / Krieger / 125,565 / 0.00 / 0.72 / 19.58 / 2.70 / 0.54 /
Yost / 0.60 / 0.44 /
2006-08 / Krieger / 128,139 / 0.00 / 0.93 / - / - / - /
Yost / 1.79 / - / - / - /
Prostate / 2000-02 / Krieger / 149,738 / 0.03 / 1.13 / 8.57 / 1.78 / 0.90 /
Yost / 1.05 / 0.83 /
2006-08 / Krieger / 152,915 / 0.02 / 1.27 / - / - / - /
Yost / 2.38 / - / - / - /

Note: *Alaska Native Tumor Registry and Louisiana Tumor Registry are excluded.

**Exclusions include cases without age information, autopsy cases, cases without cause-of-death information, and cases without survival time.