Survey Procedures for Supplementing Mortality Statistics

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Abstract
For many research and administrative needs, it is useful to supplement, for a sample of decedents, the information available directly from death records by conducting surveys with potential sources of information identified on death records. These sources of information are: informants who provided the personal particulars about the decedent required for the death record, the physician or medical examiner who certified the causes of death, the hospital in which death occurred, and the funeral director who disposed of the body. Results of methodological studies that were undertaken in order to improve the data collection techniques for conducting mortality surveys, particularly as they relate to response rates, are reported separately for each of the 4 sources of information identified on the death record.

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