LIST OF DATA ELEMENTS AND DATA LOCATIONS

                                                             Data
          Data Items                       Field Name        Locations

      1.  General
          a. Data year                     DATAYEAR           1-2
          b. Reporting area                REPAREA            3
          c. Record type                   RECTYPE            4
          d. Resident status               RESTATUS           5
          e. Month of death                MONTHDTH           42-43
          f. Day of week                   WEEKDAY            68

      2.  Occurrence  
          a. State                         STATEOC            6-7
          b. Expanded State                EXSTATOC           14-15
          c. County                        COUNTYOC           6-10 
          d. County population size        POPSIZOC           36
          e. Region                        REGION             11
          f. Division                      DIVSTOC            12-13
          g. FIPS State                    FIPSSTO            79-80
          h. FIPS County                   FIPSCTYO           79-83

      3.  Residence
          a. State                         STATERS            16-17
          b. Expanded State                EXSTARES           31-32
          c. County                        COUNTYRS           16-20
          d. County population size        POPSIZRS           37
          e. City                          CITYRS             21-25
          f. City population size          POPSIZE            26
          g. Met/Nonmet county             METRO              27
          h. Region                        REGNRES            28
          i. Division                      DIVSTRES           29-30
          j. PMSA/MSA                      PMSARES            33-35
          k. PMSA/MSA population size      POPMSA             38
          l. FIPS State                    FIPSSTR*           84-85
          m. FIPS County                   FIPSCTYR           84-88
          n. FIPS PMSA/MSA                 FIPSPMSA           89-92

      4.  The Decedent
          a. Sex                           SEX*               44
          b. Detail race                   RACE               45-46
          c. Race recode 3                 RACER3             47
          d. Race recode 4                 RACER4*            48
          e. Injury at Work                INJWORK            93
          f. Race Imputation Flag          RACEIMP            94
          g. Detail age                    AGE                49-51
          h. Age recode 52                 AGER52             52-53
          i. Age recode 20                 AGER20*            54-55
          j. Age recode 12                 AGER12             56-57
          k. Infant age recode 22          AGE22              58-59
          l. Age substitution flag         AGEFLAG            95
          m. Marital status                MARSTAT            62
          n. State of birth                STATEBTH           63-64

*THESE ARE THE ONLY DATA ELEMENTS THAT CAN BE USED TO CALCULATE VALID DEATH 
 RATES.
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     VI. List of Data Elements and Data Locations

                                                              Data
          Data Items                       Field Name         Locations

          n. Hispanic origin recode        HISPANR*           61
          o. Hispanic origin               HISPANIC           65-66
          p. Hispanic origin/race recode   HSPANICR           67
          q. Kind of business or industry  INDUSTRY           70-72
          t. Usual occupation              OCCUP              73-75
          u. Education                     EDUC               39-40
          v. Education recode              EDUCR              41
          w. Place of death                PLACDTH            60

      5.  Underlying cause
          a. ICD-9 code                    UCOD*              97-100
          b. 282 cause recode              UCR282*            101-105
          c. 72 cause recode               UCR72*             106-108
          d. 61 cause recode               UCR61              109-111
          e. 34 cause recode               UCR34*             112-114
          f  52 cause recode               UCR52*             76-78
          g. Autopsy performed             AUTOPSY            69
          h. Place of accident             ACCIDENT           96

      6.  Multiple Conditions

          a. Entity-axis conditions
             1. Number of conditions       EANUM              115-116
             2. The conditions                                117-256
                a. Part/line number
                   on certificate          ECONDPLQ
                b. Sequence of conditions  
                   within part/line        ECONDSEQ
                c. Nature of injury flag   ENIFLAG
                d. Nature of injury flag
                   and condition           ENICOND

          b. Record-axis conditions
             1. Number of conditions       RANUM              257-258
             2. The conditions                                260-359
                a. Nature of injury flag   RNIFLAG
                b. Nature of injury flag
                   and condition           RECORD






*THESE ARE THE ONLY DATA ELEMENTS THAT CAN BE USED TO CALCULATE VALID DEATH 
 RATES.

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