| The RFANLA02 data file set consists of two analytic files constructed from a single file created by Laurie Wiggs at Los Alamos National Laboratory in August of 1993 in anticipation of a cohort mortality study of workers employed during 1951 to 1978 at RFP. |
| The first file, RFANLA02_d1, contains data for 9,490 people of all races (9,025 white, 328 black, and 137 other) and includes 7,938 males and 1,552 females. It represents those people hired at Rocky Flats from March 1951 through December 1978. It does not include contractors (2), Credit Union employees (1), or those who failed to report to work after being hired (20). Demographic variables include sex, race, date of birth, and hire and term dates. |
| Annual readings of whole-body penetrating dose for external ionizing radiation (in mrem) are available from 1951 to 1989. The data from August 1976 through December 1989 was taken from computerized dosimetry badge readings provided by RFP. The data from 1952 to 1978 were abstracted from microfiche records provided by RFP. |
| The second file, RFANLA02_d2, contains internal exposure data for americium and plutonium, but not uranium. Exposures are listed by sample date and percent of maximum permissible body burden for the years 1952 to 1989. |
| Vital status is included from different sources: Rocky Flats (RFSTAT), SSA, and NDI. The Rocky Flats vital status shows 7,639 living, 1,033 dead, and 764 unaccounted for as of May 1, 1992. There were 1,324 workers reported dead as of December 31, 1990, by NDI and SSA. ICDA8 was used to code the cause of death. |
| An end-of-study date of December 31, 1989, was assigned to the file based on the years covered by the dosimetry data. |
