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Public use data tape documentation : Multiple cause of death for ICD-9 1992 data
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December 1994
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Description:This document is intended to provide guidance to the consumer in accessing and utilizing the multiple cause-of-death public-use tape file for 1992. It 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 appl ications is discussed. Control totals are also provided for comparison with user generated counts for 1992 data.
dt92icd9.pdf
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