Ebola: separating fact vs fiction. An infographic journey!
What kiwis die of iii age survey
1. What Kiwis* die of - Part III:
‘Age’ survey.
*The inhabitants of New Zealand
rather than the flightless bird….
This survey was inspired by the Guardian newspaper’s infographic ‘What we die of’
and is a collaboration between microbiologist Dr Siouxsie Wiles, chief number cruncher
Dr Paul Gardner and data visualisation extraordinaire Dr Mike Dickison.
Paul (@ppgardne) is a Royal Society of NZ Rutherford Discovery Fellow and Senior
Lecturer in Bioinformatics at the University of Canterbury's School of Biological
Sciences. He gets very excited about RNA. Mike (@adzebill) is a freelance information
designer with a PhD on the evolution of giant flightless birds. He quite likes ukuleles
too. Siouxsie (@SiouxsieW) is a Health Research Council of NZ Hercus Fellow at the
University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences. She is rather keen on
nasty bacteria and anything that glows in the dark.
2. The survey
On the 14th January 2013 we used Twitter, Facebook and
email to entice over 100 people to fill out our survey
(http://t.co/jrXSHjGq) using the SurveyMonkey website.
Like all online surveys, ours should not be considered
representative of the population of New Zealand, but rather
of people on social media who were happy
to fill out our survey.
3. Almost 30,000 people die in New Zealand each year. Previously
we have looked at what the major causes of death are and how
these differ between men and women. This week we are looking
at the data for different ages.
Please don’t cheat and google any of the answers, we want to
know what you THINK the answer is! All will be revealed on
http://sciblogs.co.nz/infectious-thoughts/ soon.
Siouxsie (@SiouxsieW), Mike (@adzebill) & Paul (@ppgardne)
4. Q1. In 2009, 29,204 people died in NZ.
Overall, do you think:
(110 responses, 0 skipped Q)
14,371 under 80
14,833 over 80
% of respondants
More people over the More people under the
About the
age of 80 died, than age of 80 died, than
same
people under 80 people over 80
5. Q2. In 2009, do you think:
(109 responses, 1 skipped Q)
Q2
40’s: 1110
60
20’s: 381
40
% of respondants
20
0
More people in their More people in their
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in their 40’s in their 20’s
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6. Q3. In 2009, do you think:
(110 responses, 0 skipped Q)
Q3
60
<5’s: 405
% of respondants
40 20’s: 381
20
0
More people in their Less people in their
's
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20’s died, than children 20’s died, than children
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7. Q4. What do you think is the major cause of death
for the under 5's?
(110 responses, 0 skipped Q)
Q4
80 44 9 0 22 0
60
% of respondants
40
20
0
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8. Q5. What do you think is the major cause of death
for people in their 20's?
(110 responses, 0 skipped Q)
Q5
80
47 37 95 98 12
60
% of respondants
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9. Q6. What do you think is the major cause of death
for people in their 30's?
(110 responses, 0 skipped Q)
Q6
40 61 114 90 69 47
30
% of respondants
20
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10. Q7. What do you think is the major cause
of death for people in their 40's?
(110 responses, 0 skipped Q)
Q7
% of respondants
60 71 407 109 58 176
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