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language:
  - en
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  AH Monthly Provisional Counts of Deaths for Select Causes of Death by Age, and
  Race and Hispanic Origin
tags:
  - hhs
  - cdc
  - age
  - cancer
  - coronavirus
  - covid-19
  - deaths
  - diabetes
  - influenza
  - monthly
  - mortality
  - nchs
  - nvss
  - pneumonia
  - provisional
  - race
  - septicemia

AH Monthly Provisional Counts of Deaths for Select Causes of Death by Age, and Race and Hispanic Origin

Description

Provisional counts of deaths by the month the deaths occurred, by age group and race/ethnicity, for select underlying causes of death for 2020-2021. Final data is provided for 2019. The dataset also includes monthly provisional counts of death for COVID-19, coded to ICD-10 code U07.1 as an underlying or multiple cause of death.

Dataset Details

Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Geographic Coverage: United States
Last Modified: 2025-04-21
Contact: National Center for Health Statistics ([email protected])

Source

Original data can be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/index.htm

Usage

You can load this dataset using:

from datasets import load_dataset
 dataset = load_dataset('HHS-Official/ah-monthly-provisional-counts-of-deaths-for-select')

License

This dataset is licensed under https://www.usa.gov/government-works