Vital Statistics Mortality Data, Multiple Cause Detail for ICD-9 1980 Data. Tape Contents and Documentation Package

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. Demographic data include variables such as data 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. The number of deaths and the death and infant mortality rates for selected demographic and cause variables are published annually in Vital Statistics of the United States, Volume II, Parts A and B. A technical appendix giving information regarding the historical aspect and limitations of the data is included in the published volumes and the documentation for the data tapes. Specialized reports are published periodically in Vital and Health Statistics.