Multiple Causes of Mortality, 2003
Documentation of the Mortality Tape File for 2003 Data
DSN: CC36.MCMORT03
CC36.MCMORT03.PS
These are multiple cause-of-death public-use data files for the year 2003.
The data 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)
Coordinating Center for Health Information Services (CoCHIS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
United States Department of Health and Human Services (US DHHS)
Telephone contact: 301-458-4777
The CC36 datasets were created on the mainframe on February 2, 2006
and the documentation is current as of February 6, 2006.
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