Multiple Cause of Death Public Use Files, 2004

This data collection includes information about the cause
of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, American Samoa,
Guam, Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands during
2004. Data are provided concerning underlying causes of death,
multiple conditions that caused the death, place of death, residence
of the deceased (e.g., region, division, state, county), whether an
autopsy was performed, and the month and day of the week of the
death. In addition, data are supplied on the sex, race, age, marital
status, education, usual occupation, and origin or descent of the
deceased. Along with to the combined Territory Public-Use file, a
subset based on state of occurrence has been created for American
Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The multiple cause of death fields were coded from the MANUAL OF THE
INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES AND RELATED
HEALTH PROBLEMS, TENTH REVISION (ICD-10).

本数据集收录了2004年美国、美属萨摩亚、关岛、北马里亚纳群岛、波多黎各及维尔京群岛境内所有登记死亡案例的相关信息。数据涵盖死亡根本原因、多重致死病症、死亡地点、死者户籍地（如大区、分区、州、县）、是否实施尸检，以及死亡发生的月份与星期几。此外，数据集还提供了死者的性别、种族、年龄、婚姻状况、受教育程度、常业、血统或族裔信息。除合并的领地公共使用文件外，还针对美属萨摩亚、关岛、北马里亚纳群岛、波多黎各及维尔京群岛，基于死亡发生地创建了对应子集。多重死亡原因字段均依据《国际疾病及相关健康问题统计分类手册（第十次修订版）》（ICD-10）进行编码。