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N V S S National Vital Statistics System logoMortality Data from the National Vital Statistics System
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Description

News Releases and Fact Sheets

bullet graphicDeaths: Preliminary Data for 2002 (2/2004)
View/download PDF 2.3 MB

bullet graphicSupplemental Analyses of Recent Trends in Infant Mortality (2/2004)

bullet graphicDeaths: Final Data for 2001 (9/2003)
View/download PDF 8 MB

bullet graphicDeaths: Leading Causes for 2001 (11/7/2003)
View/download PDF 6 MB

Data Highlights

bullet graphicLeading Causes of Death
View/download PDF 102 KB

bullet graphicLife Expectancy
View/download PDF
48 KB

bullet graphicInfant Mortality
View/download PDF
85 KB

bullet graphicNational Vital Statistics Reports on Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for 2003
View/download PDF
372 KB

Methods
Data collection

bullet graphicU.S. Standard Death Certificate, 1989 Revision
View/Download PDF 187 KB

bullet graphicU.S. Standard Death Certificate, 2003 Revision
View/Download PDF 74 KB

bullet graphicRevision of U.S. Standard Certificate of Death

bullet graphicElectronic Death Registration and Reengineering

bullet graphicWriting cause of death statements

Data processing

bullet graphicInstruction Manuals

bullet graphicInternational Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10)

bullet graphicMedical software

Information for Data Analysis

bullet graphicPublic-use data file documentation

bullet graphicMortality Technical Appendix

bullet graphicU.S. Census Population with Bridged Race Categories

bullet graphicYear 2000 Population Standard for Age-Adjusting Death Rates in the United States Brochure (5/17/2001)
View/download PDF
266 KB

Publications
Data about death

bullet graphicNational Vital Statistics Report (NVSR)

bullet graphicMonthly Vital Statistics Report (MVSR)

bullet graphicVital and Health Statistics, Series 20

bullet graphicVital Statistics of the United States, Volume II

bullet graphicForerunner to Vital Statistics of the United States

Data about life expectancy

bullet graphicVital Statistics of the United States, Volume II, Part A (U.S. Life Tables)

Miscellaneous Reports

bullet graphicThe Autopsy, Medicine, and Mortality Statistics

bullet graphicAtlas Mortality of the United States

bullet graphicHealth, United States

bullet graphicReport of the Second Workshop on Age-Adjustment

bullet graphicU.S. Vital Statistics System Major Activities and Developments: 1950-95

bullet graphicHistorical Rate Volumes

Tabulated Data

bullet graphicStatistical tables about death and life expectancy, 1999 forward

bullet graphicTabulated data for 1900-98

Micro-data
Descriptions

bullet graphicCompressed Files

bullet graphicFetal Death

bullet graphicLinked Files

bullet graphicMortality Data, Multiple Cause-of-Death

bullet graphicMortality Data, Underlying Cause-of-Death

Access

bullet graphicCDC WONDER

bullet graphicWeb-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System

bullet graphicFERRET

International Activities
bullet graphicICE on Automating Mortality
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bullet graphicNosology
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bullet graphicICE on Injury Statistics
bullet graphicInternational Mortality Database

Links to Related Sites

bullet graphicAtlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States

bullet graphicBirth Data from the National Vital Statistics System

bullet graphicNational Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS)

bullet graphicNational Mortality Followback Survey

bullet graphicInjury Data and Resources

bullet graphicNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

bullet graphicState Health Departments

bullet graphicStatistics Canada and other International Statistical Organizations

bullet graphicHuman Mortality Database

bullet graphicNational Bureau of Economic Research

bullet graphicMilitary Deaths

 

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This page last reviewed July 02, 2004

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