Mortality Detail File, 1992 (ICPSR 6798)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics
Summary:
This data collection describes every death or fetal death registered in the United States for 1992. Information includes the month of death, day of the week of death, the sex and race of the deceased, the age of the deceased at the time of death, the deceased's place of residence, place of death, and whether an autopsy was performed. Causes of death are coded using THE MANUAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, INJURIES, AND CAUSE-OF-DEATH, NINTH REVISION (ICD-9), VOLUMES 1 AND 2.
Series: Mortality Detail Files Series
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These data are freely available.
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Study Description
Citation
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Mortality Detail File, 1992. ICPSR06798-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1996. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06798.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06798.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:
- 1992
Date of Collection:
- 1992
Universe: All deaths occurring in the United States in 1992.
Data Types: administrative records data
Data Collection Notes:
Per agreement with NCHS, ICPSR distributes the data file(s) and text of the technical documentation for this collection as prepared by NCHS.
Methodology
Data Source:
death certificates filed in vital statistics offices of each state and the District of Columbia
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 1997-02-24
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