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**National Health Interview Survey Multiple Cause of    Death Public-Use Data Files**

The National Center for Health Statistics    (NCHS) announces    the availability of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), Multiple Cause of Death    Public-Use Data Files. Beginning with survey year 1986, linkage information was collected    of NHIS respondents 18 years of age and over to allow for matching to other data systems,    such as the National Death Index (NDI). Linkage of the NHIS respondents with the NDI    provides a longitudinal component to the NHIS that allows for ascertainment of vital    status. The addition of vital status permits the use of NHIS data for survival analyses,    mortality rates, and life expectancy while using the richness of the NHIS questionnaires,    core and supplements, as covariates.

The NHIS Multiple Cause of Death CD-ROM for survey years    1986-94 contains vital status through the end of 1995, the ICD-9 cause of death code, the    NCHS 72 cause recode, the NCHS 282 cause recode for the underlying cause of death and    ICD-9 codes for the entity-axis and record-axis multiple causes of death. Additional    information included on the CD-ROM includes a complete description of the matching    methodology employed and several SAS examples demonstrating the use of the multiple cause    of death files and linkage to NHIS public-use data files.

The CD-ROM cannot be used in a stand alone mode and must be    linked directly to the corresponding **NHIS**    public-use data file. NHIS survey data for 1987-94 were released on CD-ROM.

**Ordering information**The NHIS, Multiple Cause of Death CD-ROM is    only available from the National Technical Information Service **(NTIS)**. The NTIS order number and price are    as follows:
Data        yearNTIS        order no.Price1994-86PB97-503056$60.00
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This page last reviewed May 10, 2000

**U.S.    DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES****Centers    for Disease Control and Prevention**    National Center for Health Statistics    Division of Data Services     Hyattsville, MD    20782-2003    (301) 458-4636
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