Scientific Data Documentation

Multiple Cause Mortality 2000

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.



Table of Contents

• List of file Data Elements and Tape Locations
• Control Table 1
• Control Tables 2 - 6
• Selected Causes of Death (39, 113, 130, and 358 Causes)
• List of Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas (PMSA)

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