Multiple Cause of Death, 1999

This data collection includes information about the cause
of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico,
the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the
Northern Marianas during 1999. 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. In addition to the combined Territory
Public-Use file (Part 2), a subset based on state of occurrence has
been created for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam,
and Northern Marianas. Mortality detail data for 1999 also can be
extracted from this file. The mortality detail records are contained
in the first 159 positions of these multiple cause records. 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), VOLUMES 1, 2, AND 3.