Mortality Detail Files, 1968-1991 [Reformatted Data]

This data collection describes every death or fetal death registered per year in the United States from 1968-1991. Information includes the month and day of death for deaths prior to 1989 and the month of death for deaths in 1989 and after, the sex of the deceased, the age of the deceased at the time of death, the deceased's place of residence, place of death, and whether an autopsy was performed. Causes of death are coded using the eighth and ninth revisions of The International Classification of Diseases. The Mortality Detail File data is the source file used by the NCHS for the data reported annually in the Vital Statistics of the United States, Vol.II - Mortality. The original data files were collected and prepared by the National Center for Health Statistics and distributed by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Over the years, the number and location of variables and file formats of the original machine-readable data files changed. The SSDC data collection files have been reformatted by Dr. David Phillips and Todd E. Ruth, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego so that variable locations and file formats are standardized for all years of data.本数据集收录了1968年至1991年美国每年登记在册的全部死亡及胎儿死亡案例。数据集包含以下信息：1989年前的死亡案例记录死亡月份与日期，1989年及之后的死亡案例仅记录死亡月份；此外还涵盖逝者性别、死亡时年龄、常住地、死亡发生地，以及是否实施尸检。死亡原因采用《国际疾病分类（International Classification of Diseases）》第八修订版与第九修订版进行编码。死亡详情文件（Mortality Detail File）数据是美国国家卫生统计中心（National Center for Health Statistics, NCHS）用于编制《美国生命统计·第二卷：死亡（Vital Statistics of the United States, Vol.II - Mortality）》年度报告的源文件。原始数据文件由美国国家卫生统计中心采集整理，并由大学政治与社会研究联盟（Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, ICPSR）对外分发。多年来，原始机器可读数据文件的变量数量、变量位置及文件格式均发生过变更。加州大学圣地亚哥分校社会学系（Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego）的戴维·菲利普斯博士与托德·E·鲁思对SSDC数据集文件进行了格式重构，使得所有年份数据的变量位置与文件格式均实现标准化。