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Description & Citation--Study No. 4704

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:4704
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04704
 
Title:National Violent Death Reporting System, 2005
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
 
Series:National Violent Death Reporting System Series
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. NATIONAL VIOLENT DEATH REPORTING SYSTEM, 2005 [Computer file]. Compiled by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2006. ICPSR04704-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2007-05-14.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) collects data on violent deaths, i.e., suicides, homicides, and legal intervention, including terrorism-related incidents. The system also includes some other types of deaths, namely deaths due to undetermined intent and unintentional deaths due to firearms. One of the main reasons for including these types of deaths is that there is overlap in how these deaths are coded. For example, a particular poisoning case may be classified as an undetermined death in one state, but in a neighboring state, the same case may be coded as a suicide or an unintentional poisoning. NVDRS is an incident-based system that collects data from different data sources, including death certificates, coroner and medical examiner records, police reports, crime lab data, and child fatality review records. The system collects data on a violent incident, the deaths belonging to that incident, the injury mechanisms leading to death, and the alleged perpetrators (suspects) involved in the violent incident. The relationship of the victim to the suspect is also recorded, as are the relationships of each person to the injury mechanisms included. State health departments participating in NVDRS typically identify relevant violent deaths as their death certificates are filed and then establish the details of the cases from medical examiner, coroner, and law enforcement records. Data collection is ongoing as the source documents from the different data providers become available at different times and intervals. The data represent the violent incidents that occurred between January and December of that data year as submitted by the participating states.
 
Subject Term(s):crime, death, homicide, victims, violent crime
 
Smallest Geographic Unit:state
 
Geographic Coverage:Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, United States, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin
 
Time Period:2005
 
Date(s) of Collection:January 2005 - May 2006
 
Universe:The 2005 data year includes information from 17 states (Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin).
 
Data Type:administrative records data
 

Methodology

Data Source:death certificates
 
  coroner/medical examiner records
 
  police records
 
  crime lab data
 
  data abstractor input
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2007-05-14
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Incident Data
  • DS2: Death Data
  • DS3: Suspect Data
 

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