Public-use Linked Mortality File: Updated March 2020

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  Updated March 2020
  
  The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has linked data collected from several NCHS population surveys with death certificate records from the National Death Index (NDI). Due to requirements to protect the confidentiality of the NCHS survey participants, restricted-use versions of the linked mortality files are made available only through the NCHS Research Data Center (RDC).
  
  To complement the restricted-use files and increase data access, NCHS developed public-use versions of the linked mortality files for the 1986-2014 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), 1999-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and NHANES III. The public-use linked mortality files include a limited set of variables for adult participants only. The public-use versions of the NCHS linked mortality files were subjected to data perturbation techniques to reduce the participant disclosure risk. Synthetic data were substituted for follow-up time and underlying cause of death for select records. Information regarding vital status was not perturbed. The public-use linked mortality file provides mortality follow-up data from the date of survey participation through December 31, 2015.
  
  public-use-2015-linked-mortality-file-description.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Datasets As Topic Health Surveys Mortality Surveys And Questionnaires Vital Statistics
• Series:
  National Center for Health Statistics data linkage
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Name as Subject:
  National Death Index (U.S.) ; National Health Interview Survey (U.S.) ; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (U.S.) ; National Death Index (U.S.) ; National Health Interview Survey (U.S.) ; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (U.S.)
• Pages in Document:
  5 Pages
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
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