Historical Cause of Death Archive
Investigators: Myron Gutmann, Susan Hautaniemi Leonard
Understanding mortality transitions depends on understanding changing trajectories of deaths from different causes, particularly a shift from infectious, parasitic, and crisis mortality agents to degenerative diseases. Historically, less cause-of-death information has been gathered for the elderly than for persons who die in the middle of life. This paucity of information for the elderly – a problem magnified as mortality reduction results in an older population – means that trajectories of elderly mortality are also poorly understood. Our proposal seeks a partial remedy by offering large numbers of historical individual-level cause-of-death records broadly available in a uniform and integrated format. The data would be publicly available through the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)
Project aims include the following:
1. Contact holders of digitized individual death data with age and cause of death, especially longitudinal data sets. Through documentation or sample data, access procedures necessary to harmonize variables across data sets. 2. Obtain preliminary agreement to deposit datasets at the NACDA Archive at ICPSR.
3. Form core group of investigators to be involved in NIH submission, and bring them to Ann Arbor for a workshop/meeting to develop concepts and plan application.
4. Explore feasibility of parsing and coding to ICD 1 and conversion to ICD 10 across datasets using the standard dictionary developed by Grammars of Death project with NIH-funding.
5. Draft and submit NIH R01 proposal to fund data gathering, harmonization, documentation and deposit.
| Funding: | Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging |
Funding Period: 07/01/2007 to 06/30/2008
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