National Violent Death Reporting System, 2004 (ICPSR 4574)
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United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04574.v1
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The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) collects data on violent deaths, i.e., suicides, homicides, and legal intervention, including terrorism-related incidents. The system also includes some other types of deaths, namely deaths due to undetermined intent and unintentional deaths due to firearms. One of the main reasons for including these types of deaths is that there is overlap in how these deaths are coded. For example, a particular poisoning case may be classified as an undetermined death in one state, but in a neighboring state, the same case may be coded as a suicide or an unintentional poisoning. NVDRS is an incident-based system that collects data from different data sources, including death certificates, coroner and medical examiner records, police reports, crime lab data, and child fatality review records. The system collects data on a violent incident, the deaths belonging to that incident, the injury mechanisms leading to death, and the alleged perpetrators (suspects) involved in the violent incident. The relationship of the victim to the suspect is also recorded, as are the relationships of each person to the injury mechanisms included. State health departments participating in NVDRS typically identify relevant violent deaths as their death certificates are filed and then establish the details of the cases from medical examiner, coroner, and law enforcement records. Data collection is ongoing as the source documents from the different data providers become available at different times and intervals. The data represent the violent incidents that occurred between January and December of that data year as submitted by the participating states.
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state
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- For the most up-to-date data, please visit the NVDRS Restricted Access Database and the public query portal (WISQARS).
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The 2004 data year includes information from 13 states (Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin). These states combined accounted for 23.4 percent of the 2003 United States population, but 22.7 percent of the suicides and 21.9 percent of the homicides in the United States in 2002.
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crime lab data
coroner/medical examiner records
police records
death certificates
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2006-12-15
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- U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. NATIONAL VIOLENT DEATH REPORTING SYSTEM, 2004. Compiled by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. 2006. ICPSR04574-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2006-12-15. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04574.v1
2006-12-15 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:
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The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.