Study of Infant Mortality from Linked Records: Method of Study and Registration Aspects, United States, 1960 Live Birth Cohort

摘要

The report is one of a group of analytical studies of death in the first year of life among infants born alive in the United States in 1960. The mortality data are derived from infant death records linked to live birth records for the same infants, representing the mortality experience among the 1960 cohort of liveborn infants. The first report concerns itself with the record collection and registration aspects of the study.