Although all 50 State vital registration areas and the independent areas of the District of Columbia and New York City granted approval for a sample of their death certificates to be used in the 1986 NMFS, deaths from Oregon are not included in the 1986 NMFS sample because of the State's respondent consent requirements. South Dakota declined to participate in the 1993 NMFS due to State law restricting the use of death certificate information for purpose of followback. The CMS is a systematic 10-percent sample of the States' death certificates, which NCHS, CDC, receives about 3 to 4 months after the deaths occur. Approximately 2,500 of the 18,733 sample death certificates from the 1986 CMS were selected with certainty to meet certain specific research needs. A little over 45 percent of the 22,957 sample death certificates from the 1993 CMS were selected with certainty.
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The record format is blocked, fixed. Survey data are currently available for 1986. NTIS order no. The latter section includes tape location, field size, unweighted and weighted response frequencies, and the item and response categories.