This dataset describes drug poisoning deaths at the U.S. and state level by selected demographic characteristics, and includes age-adjusted death rates for drug poisoning. Deaths are classified using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD–10). Drug-poisoning deaths are defined as having ICD–10 underlying cause-of-death codes X40–X44 (unintentional), X60–X64 (suicide), X85 (homicide), or Y10–Y14 (undetermined intent). Estimates are based on the National Vital Statistics System multiple cause-of-death mortality files (1). Age-adjusted death rates (deaths per 100,000 U.S. standard population for 2000) are calculated using the direct method. Populations used for computing death rates for 2011–2017 are postcensal estimates based on the 2010 U.S. census. Rates for census years are based on populations enumerated in the corresponding censuses. Rates for noncensus years before 2010 are revised using updated intercensal population estimates and may differ from rates previously published. Death rates for some states and years may be low due to a high number of unresolved pending cases or misclassification of ICD–10 codes for unintentional poisoning as R99, “Other ill-defined and unspecified causes of mortality” (2). For example, this issue is known to affect New Jersey in 2009 and West Virginia in 2005 and 2009 but also may affect other years and other states. Drug poisoning death rates may be underestimated in those instances. REFERENCES 1. National Center for Health Statistics. National Vital Statistics System: Mortality data. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm. 2. CDC. CDC Wonder: Underlying cause of death 1999–2016. Available from: http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/ucd.html.
This dataset has the following 12 columns:
Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Sample Values |
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FIPS | fips | number | 35006 48131 31047 31043 31173 view top 100 |
Year | year | number | 2021 2018 2011 2012 2003 view top 100 |
State | state | text | Texas Georgia Virginia Kentucky Missouri view top 100 |
FIPS State | fipsstate | number | 48 13 51 21 29 view top 100 |
County | county | text | Hamlin County, SD Hoke County, NC Litchfield County, CT Kane County, IL Woodward County, OK view top 100 |
Population | population | number | 5798 8533 6683 9148 9286 view top 100 |
Model-based Death Rate | model_based_death_rate | number | 10.32789 13.08995 17.18169 5.927426 11.4453 view top 100 |
Standard Deviation | standard_deviation | number | 1.232518 1.214513 1.336114 1.625841 1.552758 view top 100 |
Lower Confidence Limit | lower95ci | number | 10.65034 12.04805 13.70589 8.582944 7.270043 view top 100 |
Upper Confidence Limit | upper95ci | number | 11.06144 11.56552 18.81385 10.07229 11.92412 view top 100 |
Urban/Rural Category | urbanrural | text | Noncore Micropolitan Medium Metro Large Fringe Metro Small Metro view top 100 |
Census Division | censusdivision | number | 4 5 7 3 6 view top 100 |