This data collection presents information about the causes of all recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam during 1995. 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. Along with the Combined Territories Public Use file, a subset based on state of occurrence has been created for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Guam. Mortality detail data for 1995 also can be extracted from this file. The mortality detail records are contained in the first 159 positions of these multiple cause records. The multiple cause of death fields were coded from the MANUAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, INJURIES, AND CAUSE-OF-DEATH, NINTH REVISION (ICD-9), VOLUMES 1 AND 2.

Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: United States Data, 1995 DS2: Combined Territories Data, 1995 DS3: Puerto Rico Data, 1995 DS4: Virgin Islands Data, 1995 DS5: Guam Data, 1995

Per agreement with NCHS, ICPSR distributes the data files and text of the technical documentation for this collection as prepared by NCHS.

All recorded deaths occurring in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam during 1995.