Public use data tape documentation : Multiple cause of death for ICD-9 data 1987 data

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  Data on causes of death ‘are released by NCHS in a variety of ways including published reports, special tabulations to answer data requests, and public-use data tape: . Since the inception of the multiple cause-of-death program in ‘968, a public-use tape file has been released for each data year. Each file contains a data record for all deaths processed by NCHS. Each data record contains underlying cause, multiple cause, and demographic data for a death.
  
  With the exception of calendar years 1972, 1981 and 1982, all deaths occurring annually in the United States are processed. In lglz, underlying and multiple cause data were coded and processed for only 50 percent of the deaths occurring in each State. In 1981 and 1982, multiple cause data were coded on a 50 percent sample basis for deaths occurring in 19 registration areas. The registration areas are the 50 States, New York City and the District of Columbia. The 50 percent sample States are identified in the documentation of the 1981 and 1982 files. For the remaining 33 registration areas, multiple cause data were processed on a 100 percent basis. In 1981 and 1982, underlying cause, demographic, and geographic data were processed for every death occurring in every State; however the multiple cause-of-death public-use tape contains only those records where the multiple cause field is also coded. A public-use tape containing underlying cause, demographic, and geographic data for every death in the United States is available but contains no multiple cause data.
  
  This document is intended to provide guidance to the consumer in accessing and utilizing the multiple cause-of-death public-use tape file for 1987. [t provides the technical data processing information necessary to access the tapes and the classification structure and coding rules applied to create each variable on the file such that the user can readi ly assess relevance at varying levels of detail to his/her own particular research. Additionally, it conveys the characteristics of the multiple cause files sufficient to guide the user in analyzing and interpreting multiple cause data. The user is alerted to certain pitfalls of interpretation; and the appropriateness of each type of multiple cause data to given applications is discussed. Control totals are also provided-for comparison with user generated counts for 1987 data.
  
  dt87icd9.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Databases, Factual Databases As Topic Death Death Certificates Documentation Mortality
• Series:
  Public Use Data Tape Documentation: Multiple Cause of Death
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  328 Pages in various pagings
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1611f1f571fd4d0bc5c6a014ba9eaf57f7d8a48d1f6dbba0d6675ba7f62abc1595a4e44a222721303a65c759d84caf87f2e697da9b18be3d63659b03483863f4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/108486/cdc_108486_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 14.09 MB ]