An Analysis of the Association between U.S. Mortality and Air Pollution

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Abstract
U.S. mortality rates (total, infant and disease-specific) across 117 standard metropolitan statisical areas in 1960 and 1961 are investigated in an attempt to estimate their association with measures of air pollution. Multivariate regression analysis is utilized to control for some of the important factors affecting mortality with the underlying hypothesis that air pollution will exhibit a significant association with mortality in the presence of other relevant factors. Taken as a whole, the analysis demonstrates a close association between air pollution and mortality and the estimated magnitude of the relationship is substantial.

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