Multiple Cause of Death, 1996

This data collection includes information about the cause
of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico,
the Virgin Islands, and Guam during 1996. 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 for 1996 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, INJURIES,
AND CAUSE-OF-DEATH, NINTH REVISION (ICD-9), VOLUMES 1 AND 2.