Multiple Cause of Death, 1997

This data collection includes information about the cause
of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico,
the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa during 1997. 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 1997 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.