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Mortality Detail Files, 1968-1991

(24 datasets; 34,325,438 KB)

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

Summary: This data collection describes every death or fetal death registered per year in the United States from 1968-1991. Information includes the month and day of death for deaths prior to 1989 and the month of death for deaths in 1989 and after, the sex 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 eighth and ninth revisions of THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICA... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07632.v4

Access Notes

  • WARNING: The total file size of this study is over 21GB. You will have to download individual datasets/formats. The quick download options have been disabled for this study.

  • 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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