Multiple Cause of Death, 1995 (ICPSR 2392)

Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics

Summary: This data collection presents information about the causes of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam during 1995. Data are provided concerning underlying causes of death, multiple conditions that caused the death, place of death, residence of the deceased (e.g., region, division, state, county), whether an autopsy was performed, and the month and day of the week of the death. In addition, data are supplied on the sex, race, age, marital stat... (more info)

Series: Multiple Cause of Death Series

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• This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the aging program within ICPSR. NACDA is sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Heath (NIH).

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United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death, 1995. ICPSR02392-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-01-08. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02392.v2

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02392.v2

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Summary:   This data collection presents information about the causes of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam during 1995. Data are provided concerning underlying causes of death, multiple conditions that caused the death, place of death, residence of the deceased (e.g., region, division, state, county), whether an autopsy was performed, and the month and day of the week of the death. In addition, data are supplied on the sex, race, age, marital status, education, usual occupation, and origin or descent of the deceased. Along with the Combined Territories Public Use file, a subset based on state of occurrence has been created for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Guam. Mortality detail data for 1995 also can be extracted from this file. The mortality detail records are contained in the first 159 positions of these multiple cause records. The multiple cause of death fields were coded from the MANUAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, INJURIES, AND CAUSE-OF-DEATH, NINTH REVISION (ICD-9), VOLUMES 1 AND 2.

Subject Terms:   age, causes of death, death, death records, ethnicity, fatalities, gender, marital status, mortality rates, race

Geographic Coverage:   Guam, Puerto Rico, United States, Virgin Islands of the United States

Time Period:  

• 1995

Date of Collection:  

• 1995

Universe:   All recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam during 1995.

Data Types:   administrative records data

Data Collection Notes:

Per agreement with NCHS, ICPSR distributes the data files and text of the technical documentation for this collection as prepared by NCHS.

Data Source:

United States Standard Certificates of Death

Extent of Processing:  ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Created variable labels and/or value labels.
• Created online analysis version with question text.

Original ICPSR Release:  1998-06-11

Version History:

• 2009-01-08 New files were added. These files included one or more of the following: Stata setup, SAS transport (CPORT), SPSS system, Stata system, SAS supplemental syntax, and Stata supplemental syntax files, and a tab-delimited ASCII data file.

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