Multiple Cause of Death Public Use Files, 2000-2002

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 2000, 2001, and 2002. 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. Mortality detail data can be extracted from this file. The mortality detail records are contained in the first 159 positions of these multiple cause records. In addition to the combined Territory Public-Use file for each year, a subset based on state of occurrence has been created for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and Northern Marianas. 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. Information regarding the use of ICD-10 codes may be found at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm.

本数据集收录了美国、波多黎各、维尔京群岛、关岛、美属萨摩亚以及北马里亚纳群岛在2000年、2001年和2002年间所有记录的死亡原因信息。数据涵盖了死亡的根本原因、导致死亡的多种疾病状况、死亡地点、死者居住地（如地区、分区、州、县）、是否进行了尸检，以及死亡月份和星期几。此外，还提供了死者的性别、种族、年龄、婚姻状况、教育程度、通常职业以及血统或出身等详细信息。死亡细节数据可从此文件中提取。死亡细节记录包含在多原因记录的前159位。除了每年综合的领土公共使用文件外，针对波多黎各、维尔京群岛、美属萨摩亚、关岛和北马里亚纳群岛的按州发生的子集也已创建。死亡原因的多原因字段是根据《国际疾病分类和健康相关问题统计手册》第十版（ICD-10）的《手册》进行编码的。关于ICD-10代码的使用信息，请访问http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm。