6/12/2001 = Start data of this file by Jean Roth, jroth@nber.org. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/VitalStatsOnline.htm source of the data files http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/mortality_public_use_data.htm source of the PDF documentation files No geographic identifiers are included in the 2005 file. This is a restriction imposed by the States. The 1972 file is a 50% sample. The number of records is given in the PDF documentation. Geographic classification is as follows: Data year Census enumeration 2003-2004 2000 1994-2002 1990 1982-93 1980 1970-81 1970 1968-69 1960 ICD regimes: 1999-on ICD-10 1979-1998 ICD-9 1968-1978 ICDA-8 (A is for Adjusted) 1958-1967 ICD-7 See "International Classification of Diseases" 1955 Revision, Volume 1. 1949-1957 ICD-6 1939-1948 ICD-5 1930-1938 ICD-4 1921-1929 ICD-3 1910-1920 ICD-2 1900-1909 ICD-1 regime data from National Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 49, No. 2, May 18, 2001 "Comparability of Cause of Death Between ICD-9 and ICD-10: Preliminary Estimates" by Robert N. Anderson, Arialdi Minino, Donna Hoyert, and Harry Rosenberg Also, now at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd9.htm . 1968-1981 counties and cities are coded in alphabetical order, but the documentation does not specify what county/city got what numeric code. The 1982 file lists city codes, so that is probably a pretty good guide to what cities got coded in 1981. Alphabetic lists of cities should be in the Mortality Part B files at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/vsus/1963/1963.htm <= old page, now at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/vsus.htm 1982 is the first file with both FIPS and NCHS county codes. http://www.nber.org/data/multicause.html 'Geographic Code -- Outline for the United States' aka http://www.nber.org/mortality/1991/docs/geocode.txt has nchs/fips code crosswalk plus county name which can be converted to nchs2fips_county1990.csv which will work well for all states but Virginia which NCHS-codes counties alphabetically first and followed by independent cities. Detail age variable in 2004 data: --------------------------------- 70-73 4 Detail Age Four positions are used to code detail age. Location 70 identifies age in years, months, days, etc. Locations 71-73 are the number of years, months, days, etc. 1 001-135,999 ... Years 2 001-011,999 ... Months 4 001-027,999 ... Days 5 001-023,999 ... Hours 6 001-059,999 ... Minutes 9 999 ... Age not stated Detail age variable in 2002 data: --------------------------------- 64-66 3 Detail Age Three positions are used to code detail age. Location 64 identifies age in years, months, days, etc. Locations 65-66 are the number of years, months, days, etc. 0 01-99 ... Years less than 100 1 00-99 ... Years 100 or more 2 01-11,99 ... Months 3 01-03,99 ... Weeks 4 01-27,99 ... Days 5 01-23, 99 ... Hours 6 01-59, 99 ... Minutes 9 99 ... Age not stated 2016-02-01 -- NCHS updated the Mort99doc.pdf file 2015-01-25 . Not noticing substantive changes to the file. NCHS updated the timestamp on interim2000p1.pdf file 2015-01-25 . No apparent changes. NCHS updated the timestamp on interim2001p1.pdf file 2015-01-25 . No apparent changes. NCHS updated the timestamp on interim2002p1.pdf file 2015-01-25 . No apparent changes. NCHS updated the timestamp on Record_Layout_2012.pdf file 2015-01-25 . No apparent changes. CDC confirmed that only the timestamp changed. 2014-07-14 -- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/Record_Layout_2011.pdf 2011 documentation source 2014-06-23 -- 1959-2002 SAS, Stata, SPSS read files updated for uniform variable type for geographic variables. 2013-03-27 -- 1967 mortality data file replaced. Thanks to NCHS. 2013-02-13 -- 2010 data files added. 2010-07-21 -- state & county of occurrence and residence in 1967 dictionary were flipped 2009-10-20 -- .zip and .Z data are now a mirror of CDC's FTP site. 2009-09-22 -- CDC updated the 2006 Territories file. They did not say what the change was. 2009-04-29 -- Updated 2006 U.S. and Territories files. CDC did not say if there was a change to the data or what it was. 2009-04-23 -- 2006 Mortality data added. SAS, SPSS, and Stata files added. 2007-08-29 -- 2003 and 2004 SAS, SPSS, and Stata files updated. Weekday of death location corrected. 2007-03-26 -- 2003 and 2004 files updated per CDC. The identities of cities of population size between 100,000 and 250,000 had been inadvertently suppressed. 2007-02-20 -- 2003 and 2004 files updated per CDC. The day of death variable was not correct. Thanks CDC for the updated files! 2007-02-08 -- SAS, SPSS, and Stata programs for 1996-2002 updated. There was a coding error for entity-axis conditions 2-20. Thanks to Beth Lasater, Brett Headley, Mike Mumma for pointing this out. 2007-02-02 -- SAS, SPSS, and Stata programs added for 2004. 2007-01-26 -- 2004 data added. 2007-01-23 -- SAS, SPSS, and Stata programs for 1959-1967 added. Note: 1967 data does not match the documenation. The record layout for the 1967 file was made by comparing published tables and means and frequencies for the 1966 data. 2006-08-16 -- 1959-1967 data added. In conflict with the documentation, the 1967 data is only 70 characters wide. nber1%> zcat mort1967.dat.Z | wc -l 1851323 2006-08-15 -- SAS, SPSS, and Stata programs for 1976-1990 added. 2006-08-02 -- SAS, SPSS, and Stata programs for 1991-1995 added. 2006-06-16 -- 2003 data replace per 2006-05-12 note below. 2006-05-12 -- 2003 data's county and city of residence fields were miscoded so that foreign residents appeared to have residence in small size cities and counties. A corrected datafile is forthcoming. 2006-05-12 -- SAS, SPSS, and Stata codes for 1997-2003 data added. 2005-03-22 -- 2002 data added. Source: National Center for Health Statistics. 2004-01-21 -- 2001 data added. Source: National Center for Health Statistics. 2003-01-17 -- 2000 data added. Source: National Center for Health Statistics. Data has state code anomaly New York. New York City is coded as "55" rather than included in New York, 33. 2002-12-06 -- 1968-1979, data added. Source: Data Archive of the Institute for Social Science Research at UCLA. 2002-11-04 -- 1980 data added. Source: Data Archive of the Institute for Social Science Research at UCLA. 2002-06-07 -- default length in Mort95.sas set equal to 4. 2002-06-03 -- 1989 and 1990 data added