Multiple Cause of Death, 1997 (ICPSR 3085)

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

Summary: This data collection includes information about the cause of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa during 1997. 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, ag... (more info)

Series: Multiple Cause of Death Series

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United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death, 1997. ICPSR03085-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-09-10. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03085.v2

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03085.v2

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Summary:   This data collection includes information about the cause of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa during 1997. 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. Mortality Detail data for 1997 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:   American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, United States, Virgin Islands of the United States

Time Period:  

• 1997

Date of Collection:  

• 1997

Universe:   All recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam during 1997.

Data Types:   administrative records data

Data Collection Notes:

Effective with 1997 data, American Samoa records are included in the Territories' Public-Use File (Part 2).

The geographic codes were changed effective with the 1996 data to reflect the results of the 1990 Census.

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

The codebook, frequencies, record layout, appendices, and geographical code outlines are provided as Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Data Source:

United States Standard Certificate 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.
• Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Original ICPSR Release:  2001-01-25

Version History:

• 2008-09-10 Setup files have been created. Subsets of the territories file have been created for American Samoa, Guam, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico based on state of occurrence.
• 2006-01-18 File CB3085.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

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