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Relative coverage of causes of death in the New York Times (NYT), 1999 to 2016

Relative coverage of articles mentioning the top 10 causes of death in the USA (in addition to terrorism, homicide and drug overdoses) in the New York Times (NYT).
This is based on the number of articles which mention any of the terms or synonym/related terms (e.g. 'murder' for homicide) in the headline or body text. This is
normalized to the relative share by dividing by the total number of articles which feature any of these causes of death.

199920162002200420062008201020122014Drug overdoseAlzheimer'sDiseaseLower respiratorydiseaseAccidentsHeart diseaseDiabetesPneumonia &influenzaStrokeSuicideCancerHomicideTerrorismKidney disease

Source: Shen et al. (2018). Based on the New York Times article database.