Multiple cause of death, 1987
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics
Series: ICPSR -- 9724; ICPSR (Series) -- 9724
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Mortality; Statistics; Vital Statistics
Description: This data collection contains information on all deaths processed by the National Center for Health Statistics for calendar year 1987. Each record in the file includes data on underlying cause and multiple cause of death. Data cover date of death, geographic location (region, state, county, city, population size), and sex, race, age, marital status, state of birth, origin or descent, kind of business, and occupation of the deceased. The underlying causes of death are coded from the Manual of the international statistical classification of diseases, injuries, and cause-of-death, ninth revision (ICD-9), volumes 1 and 2.
Notes: Title from documentation.

Source of data: Death certificates.

Numeric survey data.

United States.

System of access: Data stored on standard label 9-track magnetic tape at 6,250 bpi in ASCII mode at odd parity.