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Mortality Detail File (MORTALIT)
STIPULATIONS FOR USE: Access Restricted to Penn State researchers and members of the Association of Population Centers (APC). The files prepared below were obtained from ICPSR. ICPSR does not allow redistribution to third party users beyond Penn State or the APC (permission to redistribute within the APC granted by ICPSR). The data is not be used for any purpose other than statistical analysis and reporting. Analysts are not to use the data to learn the identity of any persons or establishments and the director of NCHS is to be notified if any identities are inadvertently discovered. Please do not attempt to combine the data set with individually identifiable records from any other NCHS or non-NCHS data set.
DESCRIPTION: This data collection describes every death or fetal death regsitered per year in the United States from 1968-1995. Information includes the month and day of death for deaths prior to 1989 and the month of death for deaths in 1989 and after, the sex of the deceased, the age of the deceased at the time of death, the deceased place of residence, place of death, and whether an autopsy was performed. Causes of death are coded using the eighth and ninth revisions of The International Classification of Diseases.
ORIGINATING AGENCY / PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S): National Center for
Health Statistics
RELATED WEB SITES:
NCHS Mortality
Statistics Web Page
NCHS Underlying
Cause of Death Web Page
PRI FACULTY, AFFILIATES, AND STUDENTS: Please note that the Underlying
Cause of Death data is now available for full public use. As always, if you
encounter any problems with the data or inadvertently discover any person's
identity, contact the Data Archivist
immediately.
DATA DISSEMINATED BY:
ICPSR