LIFE-M Ohio Causes of Death
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Longitudinal and Intergenerational Determinants of Aging and Mortality was funded by the National Institute on Aging to add critical information on cause of death to a new large-scale data resource, the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-database (LIFE-M). Enhancing the LIFE-M with cause of death will facilitate innovative research on the relationship of longevity and cause of death with demographic, socio-economic, and early-life environmental factors for family networks across four generations.<br><br>The grant had the following specific aims:<br>(1) Use the Smart Indexing technology to digitize and cross-validate hand-written cause-of-death information;<br>(2) Link digitized causes of death to the LIFE-M database and create documentation for this new variable for public use; and<br>(3) Publicly release the causes of death variable and documentation with the LIFE-M dataset, metadata, and supporting documentation.



