Descriptive statistics for air pollution, meteorological variables and hospital admission data, in São Paulo, Brazil, November 1992 to September 1994
| Mean (SD) | Percentiles | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | 5 | 25 | 50 | 75 | 95 | Max | ||
| PM10 (μg/m3) | 64.9 (32.7) | 18.4 | 31.1 | 42.9 | 55.4 | 75.5 | 131.6 | 231.8 |
| SO2 (μg/m3) | 18.3 (9.0) | 3.2 | 7.6 | 11.9 | 16.6 | 22.2 | 35.8 | 61.1 |
| NO2 (μg/m3) | 174.3 (101.3) | 26.0 | 62.0 | 108.8 | 151.7 | 210.0 | 388.0 | 692.9 |
| CO (ppm) | 5.8 (2.4) | 13.0 | 2.6 | 4.1 | 5.6 | 7.1 | 9.9 | 22.8 |
| O3 (μg/m3) | 63.4 (38.1) | 4.6 | 12.9 | 35.2 | 57.3 | 85.5 | 136.2 | 194.8 |
| Temperature | 19.4 (3.5) | 7.0 | 12.7 | 17.3 | 19.8 | 22.0 | 24.4 | 26.3 |
| Relative humidity | 77.6 (10.6) | 42.0 | 57.0 | 72.9 | 79.1 | 85.1 | 92.2 | 98.0 |
| Respiratory <5 | 56.1 (18. 7) | 18 | 29 | 42 | 54 | 68 | 91 | 117 |
| Pneumonia <5 | 40.8 (15.0) | 6 | 20 | 30 | 39 | 50 | 70 | 94 |
| Pneumonia <1 | 24.0 (11.4) | 3 | 9 | 16 | 21 | 30 | 48 | 69 |
| Asthma1-150<5 | 8.5 (3.9) | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 21 |
↵1-150 Asthma and bronchitis.
Missing data for air pollutants: PM10=22 days (3.2%), SO2=22 (3.2%), NO2=340 (48.6%), CO=25 (3.6%), O3=68 (9.7%).