Where can I find national E-code data for the Hispanic population?
Dr. Rosenberg: Unfortunately we don’t have data broken down by ethnic group the way we would like. We are starting to collect data by ethnicity. There are some national level data available. I think if you called the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control we could give you access to these data. Even through our web site you may have access to some data broken down by ethnicity and, specifically, Hispanics. One of the underlying problems here is how we define Hispanic and how we start to collect it. A lot of data may come from surveys, so at a local level a survey may one way to collect thoese data, but you’d have to know how you want to define Hispanic. Again there are sources of these data that are available at the national level and there are data that you can collect at the local level. We work on an Indian Reservation and our injury tracking efforts differ from the national statistics. From what data sources have you developed your data? Dr. Rosenberg: You’re right in th
