Scientific Data Documentation

Multiple Cause Mortality 2003

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.


Table of Contents

• List of File Data Elements and Tape Locations
• Tables for Reference and Data Validation
1. Control Table 1
2. Control Table 2
3. Control Table 3
4. Control Table 4
5. Control Table 5
6. Control Table 6
7. Deaths from ICD-10 Cause - United States 2003
• Selected Causes of Death
• 39 Selected Causes of Death
• 113 Selected Causes of Death
• 130 Selected Causes of Death
• 358 Selected Causes of Death
• Location Codes
• Vital Statistics Geographic Codes for the United States
• About the Vital Statistics Geographic Codes for the Territories
• Vital Statistics Geographic Codes for the Territories
• Primary and Metropolitan Statistical Areas - United States and Puerto Rico
• List of PMSA's & their Component Counties - United States and Puerto Rico
• Technical Appendix
• Technical Appendix - 1999

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