I C P S R

National Institute on Aging

Description & Citation--Study No. 4640

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

04640

Title:

Multiple Cause of Death Public Use Files, 2000-2002

Principal Investigator(s):

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics

Bibliographic Citation:

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics. MULTIPLE CAUSE OF DEATH PUBLIC USE FILES, 2000-2002. ICPSR04640-v1. Hyattsville, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics [producer], 2002. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-02-07. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04640.v1

Series:

Multiple Cause of Death Series

Scope of Study

Summary:

This data collection includes information about the cause of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas during 2000, 2001, and 2002. 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 can be extracted from this file. The mortality detail records are contained in the first 159 positions of these multiple cause records. In addition to the combined Territory Public-Use file for each year, a subset based on state of occurrence has been created for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and Northern Marianas. The multiple cause of death fields were coded from the MANUAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES AND RELATED HEALTH PROBLEMS, TENTH REVISION (ICD-10), VOLUMES 1, 2, AND 3. Information regarding the use of ICD-10 codes may be found at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm.

Subject Terms:

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

Geographic Coverage:

American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, United States, Virgin Islands of the United States, Global

Time Period:
  • 2000--2002

Date of Collection:
  • 2000--2002

Universe:

All recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas during 2000-2002.

Data Types:

administrative records data

Data Collection Notes:

Effective with 1999 data, cause of death information is classified according to the MANUAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES AND RELATED HEALTH PROBLEMS, TENTH REVISION (ICD-10), VOLUMES 1, 2, AND 3.

Methodology

Data Source:

United States Standard Certificate of Death

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

2007-02-07

Restrictions:

In preparing the data files for this collection, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has removed direct identifiers and characteristics that might lead to identification of data subjects. As an additional precaution NCHS requires, under Section 308(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242m), that data collected by NCHS not be used for any purpose other than statistical analysis and reporting. NCHS further requires that analysts not use the data to learn the identity of any persons or establishments and that the director of NCHS be notified if any identities are inadvertently discovered. ICPSR member institutions and other users ordering data from ICPSR are expected to adhere to these restrictions.

Dataset(s):
  • DS1: United States, 2000
  • DS2: United States, 2001
  • DS3: United States, 2002
  • DS4: All Territories, 2000
  • DS5: Puerto Rico, 2000
  • DS6: Virgin Islands, 2000
  • DS7: Guam, 2000
  • DS8: American Samoa, 2000
  • DS9: Northern Marianas, 2000
  • DS10: All Territories, 2001
  • DS11: Puerto Rico, 2001
  • DS12: Virgin Islands, 2001
  • DS13: Guam, 2001
  • DS14: American Samoa, 2001
  • DS15: Northern Marianas, 2001
  • DS16: All Territories, 2002
  • DS17: Puerto Rico, 2002
  • DS18: Virgin Islands, 2002
  • DS19: Guam, 2002
  • DS20: American Samoa, 2002
  • DS21: Northern Marianas, 2002