Scientific Data Documentation
Natality - Linked Birth/Infant Death, 2002
Linked Birth/Infant Death, 2002
Documentation of the Linked Birth/Infant Death Tape File for 2002 Data
DSN: CC36.Natal02.Link (Numerator file - US)
CC36.Natal02.Link.PS (Numerator file - PS (Territory))
CC36.Natal02.UnLink (Unmatched file - US)
CC36.Natal02.UnLink.PS (Unmatched file - PS (Territory))
CC36.Natal02.Denom (Denominator file - US)
CC36.Natal02.Denom.PS (Denominator file - PS (Territory))
The 2002 period linked birth/infant death data set includes several data files. The first file includes all United States of America
(US) infant deaths which occurred in the 2002 data year linked to their corresponding birth certificates, whether the birth
occurred in the 2002 or in 2001 - referred to as the numerator file. The second file contains information from the death certificate
for all United States of America (US) infant death records, which could not be linked to their corresponding birth certificates -
referred to as the unlinked death file. The third file is the 2002 National Center for Health Statistics(NCHS) natality file for the
United States of America (US) (plus late filed records mentioned above) in compressed format, which is used to provide
denominators for rate computations. These same three data files are also available for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,
and Guam.
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 January, 2005 and the documentation is as of January, 2005.
*Note: As of January, 2005, 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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