Multiple Cause of Mortality, 2000
Documentation of the Mortality Tape File for 2000 Data
DSN: CC36.MCMORT00
CC36.MCMORT00.PS
These are multiple cause-of-death public-use data files for the year 2000 and are released for each data year. Each file
contains a data record for all deaths processed by National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Each data record contains
underlying cause, multiple cause, and demographic data for a death. The first file contains the data for the entire country
excluding the territories and the second file contains data for all the territories.
Source for this dataset and documentation is
Systems Programming and Statistical Resources Branch
Division of Vital Statistics,
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
301-458-4535
CC36 dataset was created on the mainframe on October 16, 2003 and the documentation is as of November 14, 2003.
*Note: As of November 14, 2003, only partial documentation is available. As soon as National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS) provides the remaining sections of the documentation, it will be updated.
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