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Public use data tape documentation : Multiple cause of death for ICD-9 1996 data
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August 1998
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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 1996. 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 readily 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 1996 data.
dt96idc9.pdf
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Pages in Document:397 pages in various pagings
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