Multiple Cause of Death Public Use Files, 2003

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 2003. 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 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).