Multiple Cause of Death, 1974-1978

This data collection presents information about the causes
of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico,
the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa during 1974 through 1978.
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.
The multiple cause of death fields were coded from the MANUAL OF THE
INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, INJURIES, AND
CAUSE-OF-DEATH, EIGHTH REVISION (ICD-8), VOLUMES 1 AND 2.