Multiple Cause of Death, 1983 (ICPSR 9879)
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 deaths occurring in the United States during 1983. Data are provided concerning underlying causes of death, place of death, whether there were multiple conditions that caused the death, and what those conditions were. In addition, data are provided on date of death, and on sex, race, age, marital status, and origin or descent of the deceased. Also included is information on residence of the deceased (state, county, city, region, and whether the county was a metropolitan or nonmetropolitan area). Data on whether an autopsy was performed and the site of accidents are also provided.
Series: Multiple Cause of Death Series
Access Notes
These data are freely available.
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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Study Description
Citation
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death, 1983. ICPSR09879-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-10-14. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09879.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09879.v1
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: age, causes of death, death, death records, ethnicity, fatalities, gender, marital status, mortality rates, race
Geographic Coverage: United States
Time Period:
- 1983
Date of Collection:
- 1983
Universe: All deaths occurring in the United States in 1983.
Data Types: administrative records data
Data Collection Notes:
Per agreement with NCHS, ICPSR distributes the data file(s) and technical documentation in this collection in their original form as prepared by NCHS.
Methodology
Data Source:
death certificates
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.
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 1993-05-13
Version History:
- 2008-10-14 New files were added. These files included one or more of the following: Stata setup, SPSS setup, SAS 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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