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Public-Use Linked Mortality Files

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NCHS has linked data from various surveys with death certificate records from the National Death Index [NDI]. Linkage of the NCHS survey participant data with the NDI mortality data provides the opportunity to conduct a vast array of outcome studies designed to investigate the association of a wide variety of health factors with mortality. The Linked Mortality Files [LMF] have been updated with mortality follow-up data through December 31, 2019. Public-use Linked Mortality Files [LMF] are available for 1986-2018 NHIS, 1999-2018 NHANES, and NHANES III. The files include a limited set of mortality variables for adult participants only. The public-use versions of the NCHS Linked Mortality Files were subjected to data perturbation techniques to reduce the risk of participant re-identification. For select records, synthetic data were substituted for follow-up time or underlying cause of death. Information regarding vital status was not perturbed.

Dataset Type	Generic
Keywords	research-data-center, nchs surveys, linked mortality files, public use files, sdoh-poverty-income, sdoh-employment, sdoh-food-insecurity, sdoh-housing-stability, sdoh-high-school, sdoh-higher-education, sdoh-early-childhood, sdoh-access-to-health-care, sdoh-source-of-health-care, sdoh-use-of-health-care, sdoh-health-literacy, sdoh-food-access, sdoh-housing-quality, sdoh-crime-violence, sdoh-environmental, sdoh-workplace, sdoh-transportation, sdoh-social-emotional, sdoh-language, sdoh-civic-participation
Primary Associated Project	General Health Statistics Datasets CDC
Storage Organization	University of Virginia
HIPAA Identifiers	N/A: Not derived from Medical Records
Data Granularity	NONE
Other Sensitive Data	NONE
Link to External Dataset File	https://data.cdc.gov/d/r9nv-zxge