Datasets and Related Documentation for Mortality Data

Methods

Data Collection

• Electronic Death Registration System Online Reference Manual: A Resource for Jurisdictions [PDF – 2 MB]
• Revisions of the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death
  • U.S. Standard Death Certificate, 1989 Revision [PDF – 187 KB]
  • U.S. Standard Death Certificate, 2003 Revision [PDF – 74 KB]
• Reengineering
• Writing Cause-of-Death Statements

Data Processing

• Instruction Manuals
• MedCoder
• International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10)
• World Health Organization (WHO) ICD Website – Online Version of ICD-10
• Comparability of Cause of Death Between ICD Revisions

Information for Data Analysis

• Public-use Data File Documentation
• Mortality Technical Appendix
• U.S. Census Population with Bridged Race Categories
• U.S. Intercensal Population Estimates by Specified Hispanic Origin Groups

Micro-data

Data Release Policy

Compressed Files Description

Access

• Vital Statistics Downloadable Data
• CDC WONDER (underlying cause of death; multiple cause of death)
• Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System
• DataFerrett