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Illinois Department of Public Health EMS Reporting System - Death Certificate Data Dictionary

(Calendar Years 1994 - 1998)

Data Element	Categories	Description	Comments
Age	0 1 - 4 5 - 9 10 - 14 15 - 19 20 - 24 25 - 34 35 - 44 45 - 54 55 - 64 65 - 74 75 +	Age in years, based on the date the death occurred	Age values are for the most part provided in five or 10-year intervals.
Gender	Female Male
Race/ Ethnicity	Asian/Pacific Islander Black non-Hispanic Hispanic Native American White non-Hispanic Other	(Asian Indian, Guamanian, Korean, Samoan, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Other Asian, Filipino, Hawaiian) (Black, not of Hispanic Origin) (Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central/South American, Other/ Unknown Spanish) (American Indian) (White not of Hispanic origin) (Other non-White)
Cause of Death	Atherosclerosis Cancer (Malignant Neoplasms) Cerebrovascular Disease Chronic Liver Disease & Cirrhosis Congenital Anomalies Diabetes Heart Disease Infection - Septicemia Infection - All Other Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Injury (Intentional) - Homicide and Legal Intervention Injury (Intentional) - Suicide Injury (Unintentional) - Drownings Injury (Unintentional) - Falls Injury (Unintentional) - Exposure to smoke, fire and flames Injury (Unintentional) - Motor Vehicle Injury - All others Nephritis/Nephrotic Syndrome/ Nephrosis Perinatal Conditions Respiratory - Acute Upper Respiratory Infections/Bronchitis/Bronchiolitis Respiratory - Asthma Respiratory - COPD and Allied Conditions (excludes Asthma) Respiratory - Pneumonia/Influenza All Other Causes Unknown¹	440 140-208 430-438 571 740-759 250 393-398;402;404-429 038 001-139(excluding 038) E960-E978 E950-E959 E910 E880-E888 E890-E899 E810-E825 E800-E999 (excluding all other E-codes listed above) 580-589 760-779 460-466 493 490-492;494-496 (excludes asthma) 480-487	Grouping is based on ICD-9 coding for underlying cause of death. HIV/AIDS deaths are included with the category "Infection - All Other Infectious and Parasitic Diseases". The "Injury - All Others" category includes all other injuries classified as unintentional, all injuries of undetermined intent and injuries classified as operations of war.
County	All 102 Illinois counties from ADAMS to … WOODFORD Unknown Place in Illinois	County of residence of the deceased
Time Period	1994-Q1 1994-Q2 1994-Q3 1994-Q4 … through 1998-Q4	Quarterly time frames based on the date of death

Notes: ¹ The category of "Unknown" represents all values that were invalid entries, values recorded as "unknown,"
or when no values were entered for the field.

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