Determining occupation for National Violent Death Reporting System records: An evaluation of autocoding programs

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Ind Med
• Personal Author:
  Davis, Jonathan ; Peek-Asa, Corinne ; Dale, Ann Marie ; Zhang, Ling ; Casteel, Carri ; Hamann, Cara ; Evanoff, Bradley A
• Description:
  Background:
  
  Suicide is a leading cause of death for working-age adults. Suicide risk varies across occupations. The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) collects information about violent deaths occurring in the United States. Occupation can be determined using autocoding programs with NVDRS data. The objective of this analysis is to determine the accuracy of autocoding programs for assigning occupations in the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS).
  
  Methods:
  
  Deaths from suicide were identified in NVDRS for individuals age 16 and older from 2010–2017. Occupations were assigned after processing job description free text with autocoding programs. Job assigned by autocoding program were compared with the occupation code recorded on the death certificate.
  
  Results:
  
  Assignment of major occupation group had substantial agreement (Cohen’s kappa > 0.7) for the two autocoding programs evaluated. Agreement of assigned code varied across race/ethnicity and occupation type.
  
  Conclusions:
  
  Autocoding programs provide an efficient method for identifying the occupation for decedents in NVDRS data. By identifying occupation circumstances of suicide and rates of suicide can be studied across occupations.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Cause Of Death Homicide Humans Occupations Population Surveillance Suicide
• Source:
  Am J Ind Med. 64(12):1018-1027
• Pubmed ID:
  34490655
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8711134
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  T42 OH008491/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U19OH008868/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE003095/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U19 OH008868/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R49CE003095/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  64
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8495cf18f1baa03c8f42b23596eba7af34d751185b5489ca8536d075b21fd6a5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/112959/cdc_112959_DS1.pdf
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