NCHS - Drug Poisoning Mortality by State: United States

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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 2011–2016 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.

Tags: deaths, drug poisoning, mortality, state, national, united states, nchs

This dataset has the following 19 columns:

Column NameAPI Column NameData TypeSample Values
Statestatetext
Yearyearnumber
Sexsextext
Age Groupage_grouptext
Race and Hispanic Originrace_and_hispanic_origintext
Deathsdeathsnumber
Populationpopulationnumber
Crude Death Ratecrude_death_ratenumber
Standard Error for Crude Ratestandard_error_for_crude_ratenumber
Lower Confidence Limit for Crude Ratelower_confidence_limit_for_crude_ratenumber
Upper Confidence Limit for Crude Rateupper_confidence_limit_for_crude_ratenumber
Age-adjusted Rateage_adjusted_ratenumber
Standard Error for Age-adjusted Ratestandard_error_for_age_adjusted_ratenumber
Lower Confidence Limit for Age-adjusted Ratelower_confidence_limit_for_age_adjusted_ratenumber
Upper Confidence Limit for Age-adjusted Rateupper_confidence_limit_for_age_adjusted_ratenumber
State Crude Rate in Rangestate_crude_rate_in_rangetext
US Crude Rateus_crude_ratenumber
US Age-adjusted Rateus_age_adjusted_ratenumber
Unitunittext