The Social Security Administration's Death Master File: The Completeness of Death Reporting at Older Ages

Social Security Bulletin

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-49

  Hill, Mark E ^a,b   Rosenwaike, Ira ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Univ's Pop Research Institute

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL SECURITY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; MORTALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035754467     PISSN: 00377910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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