Drug overdose death rates, by drug type, sex, age, race, and Hispanic origin: United States
Data on drug overdose death rates, by drug type and selected population characteristics. Please refer to the PDF or Excel version of this table in the HUS 2019 Data Finder (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/contents2019.htm) for critical information about measures, definitions, and changes over time.
SOURCE: NCHS, National Vital Statistics System, numerator data from annual public-use Mortality Files; denominator data from U.S. Census Bureau national population estimates; and Murphy SL, Xu JQ, Kochanek KD, Arias E, Tejada-Vera B. Deaths: Final data for 2018. National Vital Statistics Reports; vol 69 no 13. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.2021. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/nvsr.htm. For more information on the National Vital Statistics System, see the corresponding Appendix entry at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus19-appendix-508.pdf.
Columns
| Name | Socrata field name | Column name in sgr mount | Data type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESTIMATE | estimate | estimate | Number | Calculated estimate of the measure. |
| AGE_NUM | age_num | age_num | Number | Numeric code for levels of AGE that may be used for easier coding or formatting of the AGE variable. |
| AGE | age | age | Text | Age group pertaining to the estimate. |
| YEAR | year | year | Text | Data year or range of data years pertaining to the estimate. |
| STUB_LABEL | stub_label | stub_label | Text | Specific population subgroup pertaining to the estimate. |
| STUB_NAME_NUM | stub_name_num | stub_name_num | Number | Numeric code for levels of STUB_NAME that may be used for easier coding or formatting of the STUB_NAME variable. |
| STUB_NAME | stub_name | stub_name | Text | Description of the population category pertaining to the estimate. |
| FLAG | flag | flag | Text | Additional information pertaining to the estimate. See the footnotes in the source table (Excel) for more information. |
| YEAR_NUM | year_num | year_num | Number | Numeric code for levels of YEAR that may be used for easier coding or formatting of the YEAR variable. |
| STUB_LABEL_NUM | stub_label_num | stub_label_num | Number | Numeric code for levels of STUB_LABEL that may be used for easier coding or formatting of the STUB_LABEL variable. |
| UNIT_NUM | unit_num | unit_num | Number | Numeric code for levels of UNIT that may be used for easier coding or formatting of the UNIT variable. |
| UNIT | unit | unit | Text | Unit of measurement of the estimate. |
| PANEL_NUM | panel_num | panel_num | Number | Numeric code for levels of PANEL that may be used for easier coding or formatting of the PANEL variable. |
| PANEL | panel | panel | Text | Submeasures of INDICATOR. Datasets may have multiple panels. |
| INDICATOR | indicator | indicator | Text | Measure being estimated. |