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.