What do kiwis die of survey
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What do Kiwis* die of? A 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.
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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. A blog post about this survey is on http://sciblogs.co.nz/infectious-thoughts/
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What do Kiwis* die of? A 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.
The survey
In mid January 2013 we used Twitter, Facebook, SciBlogs(http://bit.ly/Wh50MX) and email to entice over 360 people
to fill out our survey (http://svy.mk/XacD71) 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.
Almost 30,000 people die in New Zealand each year. We are interested to know what you think our biggest killers are. And what do you think you will die of?
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/.
Thanks for taking part!
Siouxsie (@SiouxsieW), Mike (@adzebill) & Paul (@ppgardne)
Q1. How many people in NZ do you think die of cancer each year? (358 responses, 1 skipped Q)
Number of deaths per year
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Actual = 8,500
Q2. Which cancer do you think most people in NZ die of?Data 1
Lung
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anom
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Bre
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Mal
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leuke
mia
Femal
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Actual = 2,578
Q3. How many people in NZ do you think die from circulatory diseases (strokes, heart attacks, etc) each year?
(357 responses, 2 skipped Q)
Number of deaths per year
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Actual = 10,372
Q4. Which of the following do you think more people in NZ die of? (354 responses, 5 skipped Q)
Suicide
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Actual = 510
Melanoma(skin cancer)
Road accidents
Actual = 445
Actual = 474
Q5. How many people in NZ do you think commit suicide each year? (357 responses, 2 skipped Q)
Number of deaths per year
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surv
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Actual = 510
Q6. How many people in NZ do you think die in traffic accidents each year? (359 responses, 2 skipped Q)
Number of deaths per year
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surv
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Actual = 474
Q7. What do you think you will die of? N
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Q8. Are you male or female? N
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Q9. How old are you?
Age
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