Meta Data Name: Drug-Related Death Rate
Last Modified: February 5, 2021
Author: Susan Paykin
Health01 at 2 spatial scales. Files can be found here.
- Health01_C
- Health01_S
Data on drug-related deaths was sourced from the US CDC's Underlying Cause of Death, 2009-2019 dataset, available through CDC WONDER. This dataset includes national, state, county, and regional mortality data from 1999-2019, including number of deaths, crudge death rates, and age-adjusted death rates. This data can be obtained by place of residence, age group (single-year-of age, 5-year age groups, 10-year age groups and infant age groups), race, Hispanic ethnicity, gender, year, cause-of-death (4-digit ICD-10 code or group of codes), injury intent and injury mechanism, drug/alcohol induced causes and urbanization categories.
The mortality data are based on information from all death certificates filed in the fifty states and the District of Columbia. Deaths of nonresidents (e.g. nonresident aliens, nationals living abroad, residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and other territories of the U.S.) and fetal deaths are excluded. Mortality data from the death certificates are coded by the states and provided to NCHS through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program or coded by NCHS from copies of the original death certificates provided to NCHS by the State registration offices. For more information, see CDC.
Data was aggregated to state and county-levels, including total population and total deaths, for all demographics, times, and places for the period 2009-2018. The following ICD-10 codes were included:
D52.1, D59.0, D59.2, D61.1, D64.2, E06.4, E23.1, E24.2, E27.3, G24.0, G25.1, G25.4, G25.6, G72.0, J70, K03.2, K73, K85.3, L10.5, M10.2, M81.4, M87.1
F10-F19
R78, R82.5, R83.2-R89.2
X40-44, Y10-Y14, Y50.1
X60-X64
Data was wrangled, cleaned and filtered for the 48 contiguous US states & Washington, D.C. The adjusted death rate (per 100,000 residents) was calculated by dividing total deaths by total population, multiplied by 100,000 (death / pop * 100,000).
| Variable | Variable ID in .csv | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Deaths | deaths | Total deaths from drug-related causes, 2009-2018 |
| Population | pop | Total population |
| Raw death rate | rawDeathRt | Raw death rate |
| Adjusted death rate per 100K | adjDeathRt | Adjusted death rate per 100K population |
County-level and other subnational data representing fewer than ten persons (0-9) are suppressed for year 1989 and later years, including our years of interest 2009-2018. Furthermore, rates may be considered "unreliable" when the death count is less than 20. For more information, see CDC.
This dataset includes data for the 48 contiguous U.S. states and Washington, D.C. It does not include Alaska, Hawaii, or the U.S. territories: Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands.