Mortality detail file

Description

The Mortality Detail File: External Cause Extract is a special subset of data prepared from the Mortality Detail File 1968-1980 (ICSPR 7632). These data were collected by the National Center for Health Statistics and are of considerable importance to those individuals interested in criminological research. Due to changes in Cause of Death definitions incorporated in the Ninth Revision, International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9), the 1968-1978 data files differ slightly from the 1979-80 data files. The 1968-1978 data reflect cause of death codes of the Eighth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases Adapted for Use in the United States (ICDA-8), the period immediately following (1979-80) utilizes ICD-9 cause of death codes. In addition to the differences in the Cause of Death codes and recodes, the 1979-1980 data include three variables not available in the 1968-1978 datasets. These are: (1) mortality by marital status, (2) state or country of birth, and (3) place of death and status of decedent when death occurred in a hospital or medical center. With these exceptions, the data are similar in structure and content to the 1968-1978 data and provide such detailed personal and geographic information as month and day of death, decedent's race and gender, age of deceased at time of death, place of decedent's residence (specifc to the city level) and place of death (specific to the county level), and whether an autopsy was performed.