Mortality Detail and Multiple Cause of Death, 1981

This data collection presents information about the causes
of deaths occurring during 1981. Part 1, the Mortality Detail file,
describes every death or fetal death registered in the United States
for 1981. Part 2, Multiple Cause of Death, provides information about
the causes of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States,
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa during
1981. 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 death. In addition,
data are supplied on the sex, race, age, marital status, education,
usual occupation, and origin or descent of the deceased. The multiple
cause of death fields were coded from the MANUAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL
STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, INJURIES, AND CAUSE-OF-DEATH,
NINTH REVISION (ICD-9), VOLUMES 1 AND 2.