Vital Statistics Mortality Data, Multiple Cause of Death Detail for ICD-9, 1987 Data. Public Use Data Tape Documentation

摘要

Vital statistics data relating to mortality provide demographic, underlying and multiple cause-of-death data for deaths occurring during the calendar year. The data are based on information abstracted from all death certificates filed in vital statistics offices of each State and the District of Columbia. Death is defined as the permanent disappearance of any evidence of life at any time after live birth, therefore, data relating to fetal deaths are not included in the data. Demographic data include variables such as date of death, age, race, sex and geographic area. Underlying and multiple cause-of-death data have been coded to the causes shown in the Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases. Death and infant mortality rates and/or denominators required to derive such rates are not on the tapes.