Multiple Cause of Death, 1994

Resource Information

The work Multiple Cause of Death, 1994 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Multimedia, Software, Computer Files.

Label

Multiple Cause of Death, 1994

Statement of responsibility

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Subject

• Statistics
• Death records
• Death
• Race
• Mortality rates
• Gender
• Causes of death
• Marital status
• Age
• Ethnicity
• Fatalities

Genre

• Statistics

Language

eng

Summary

This data collection presents information about the causes of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam during 1994. Data are provided concerning underlying causes of death, multiple conditions that caused the death, place of death, residence of the deceased (e.g., region, division, state, county), whether an autopsy was performed, and the month and day of the week of the death. In addition, data are supplied on the sex, race, age, marital status, education, usual occupation, and origin or descent of the deceased. Mortality detail data for 1994 also can be extracted from this file. The mortality detail records are contained in the first 159 positions of these multiple cause records. The multiple cause of death fields were coded from the MANUAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, INJURIES, AND CAUSE-OF-DEATH, NINTH REVISION (ICD-9), VOLUMES 1 AND 2

Member of

• ICPSR (Series), 2201

Additional physical form

Also available as downloadable files.

Cataloging source

ICPSR

Characteristic

combination

Geographic coverage

United States.

Government publication

unknown if item is government publication

Series statement

• ICPSR
• Multiple Cause of Death Series

Series volume

• 2201
• 2201

Target audience

specialized