Multiple Cause of Death, 1996
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics
age
causes of death
death
death records
ethnicity
fatalities
gender
marital status
mortality rates
race
This data collection includes information about the cause of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam during 1996. 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 for 1996 also can be extracted from this file. The Mortality Detail records are contained in the first 159 positions of these Multiple Cause records. The multiple cause of death fields were coded from the MANUAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, INJURIES, AND CAUSE-OF-DEATH, NINTH REVISION (ICD-9), VOLUMES 1 AND 2.
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http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02702.v2
03-05-2009
administrative records data
United States Standard Certificate of Death
Guam
Puerto Rico
United States
Virgin Islands of the United States
1996