Multiple Cause of Death, 1974-1978 (ICPSR 3906)

Published: May 16, 2007

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

Series:

Multiple Cause of Death Series

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03906.v2

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Project Description

Summary

This data collection presents information about the causes of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa during 1974 through 1978. 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. The multiple cause of death fields were coded from the MANUAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, INJURIES, AND CAUSE-OF-DEATH, EIGHTH REVISION (ICD-8), VOLUMES 1 AND 2.

Citation

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death, 1974-1978. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-05-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03906.v2

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Subject Terms

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

Geographic Coverage

North Carolina Indiana Wyoming Utah Guam Virgin Islands of the United States Arizona Montana Kentucky California Kansas Florida Delaware Pennsylvania Mississippi Iowa Illinois Texas Connecticut Georgia Virginia Maryland Idaho Vermont Oregon Puerto Rico United States Oklahoma Maine Tennessee American Samoa Alabama Arkansas South Carolina Washington Nebraska West Virginia Massachusetts Colorado Missouri Alaska North Dakota Wisconsin Nevada New York Rhode Island District of Columbia South Dakota Hawaii Minnesota New Jersey Michigan New Mexico New Hampshire Louisiana Ohio

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.

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1974 -- 1978

Date of Collection

1974 -- 1978

Data Collection Notes

(1) Per agreement with NCHS, ICPSR distributes the data files and text of the technical documentation for this collection as prepared by NCHS. (2) The codebooks, frequencies, record layouts, appendices, and geographical code outlines are provided by the data producer as Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Methodology

Universe

All recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam during 1974-1978.

Data Source

United States Standard Certificate of Death

Data Type(s)

administrative records data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

2004-01-30

Version Date

2007-05-16

Version History

2006-01-18 File CB3906.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2007-05-16 Setup files have been created.

Analysis Information

Weight

There is one weight variable in the data file called WTFACTOR.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

This study 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).