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Multiple cause of death public use tape : ICDA-8 (1968- 1978)

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    National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
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    This document is intended to provide guidance to the consumer in accessing and utilizing eleven Multiple Cause of Death Public Use Tape files which are now being prepared for release and will cover deaths occurring in the United States during the period 1968-1978. Each yearly tape file will contain two multiple cause of death fields which have been coded using the Intemational Classification of Diseases, Adapted for Use in the United States, Eighth Revision (ICDA-8) and are available for the first time from these tapes. In addition, each tape file will contain all underlying cause, demographic, and geographic detail data originally,released as part of the NCHS micro data tape program (see pages 9, 12, and 13, NCHS Standardized Micro-DataTape Transcripts,Hyattsville, Maryland June 1978). The documentation 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 tapes such that the user can readily assess relevance at varying levels of detail to his own particular research. Additionally,it conveys the characteristics of the multiple cause fields sufficient to guide the user in analyzingand 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 applicationsis discussed.

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