National mortality followback survey, 1966-1968
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics
Series: ICPSR -- 8370; ICPSR (Series) -- 8370
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Smoking; Statistics
Description: This survey was designed primarily to obtain information on the smoking habits of decedents by examining death certificates and questionnaires mailed to death record informants. Smoking variables in this data collection include number of cigarettes smoked when the decedent smoked most, number smoked the year before death, number smoked three years before death, and cigar and pipe smoking occurrence three years before death. Demographic variables include marital status, family type, number of children, living arrangements, size of family, birth and death of the decedent, family income and family debt, and cause of death.
Notes: Survey data, and event/transaction data.

Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

ICPSR data class: Class IV

Chronological coverage: 1966-1968

questionnaires to death record informants, and death certificates

United States.

Logical record length format.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 19,526 ; variable count: 70 ; logical record length: 120 ; records per case: 1

This survey used a stratified sample of death certificates designed to produce an overall sample of 1/26th of the deaths reported in the Current Mortality Survey (CMS) during the three-year period.

Universe: All decedents 35 to 84 years of age whose death was reported in the Current Mortality Survey (CMS) during the three year survey were included in the universe of decedents from which the sample was drawn.