Last updated: April 30 2012 The Injury Mortality Data Collection of the GBD Injury Expert Group Summary description: Country-level injury mortality data tabulations disaggregated by year, age, sex, and external cause categories. Version: 2.4 [version history] Released on: April 30 2012 Caution: The datasets provided on this page are intended for research purposes. The injury death estimates presented here cannot be taken at face value. Deriving country estimates from data reported on this page requires analysis. This includes, adjustments for coverage and completeness of death registration, reclassification of mis-classified deaths and reassignment of deaths coded to partially-specified causes. This work is ongoing as part of the GBD-2010 study and will not be complete until mid 2012. Please contact Kavi Bhalla (kavibhalla@gmail.com) with questions. Download the mortality data collection
Data format: - CSV files are comma-separated text file. Please note that because they contain millions of records you will not be able to directly open them in many spreadsheet programs (e.g. Excel). However, you should be able to read them into most statistical software packages (for e.g. using the infile command in Stata). - DTA files are Stata datasets. - MS Excel Format: These files can be loaded into Excel. These are also CSV formatted files but can be opened in Excel because the data has been reshaped to reduce the number of rows. This was accomplished by including age-sex breakdown in columns rather than rows. How did this project get access to the data?All of the starting data in the current version of this data collection was obtained from the WHO Mortality Database, publicly available from the WHO website. These data are tabulations of deaths recorded by national civil registration systems and provided to WHO by the relevant national agencies. Users of the data should note the disclaimers on the WHO website and also comply with their terms of use. In particular, the following section from the WHO website should be noted: " WHO asks users to cooperate in the provision of electronically transmitted data by adhering to the following guidelines:
(a) Material drawn from the MDB for publication must be accompanied by an acknowledgment of WHO as the source and a disclaimer crediting analyses, interpretations or conclusions to the author of the published data and not to WHO, which is responsible only for the provision of the original information.
(b) Users wishing to publish a technical description or qualification of the data will make a reasonable effort to ensure that it is not inconsistent with any published by WHO.
(c) Recipients of electronically transmitted data wishing to, or asked to make these, or copies thereof available to a third party are asked to refer such party to WHO, who will transmit the data directly accompanied with the necessary documentation. This will prevent circulation of out-of-date data, as the MDB is updated regularly.
It should be noted that these data are transmitted on the understanding that no use will be made of them for commercial purposes and that no such permission or right to use may be implied thereby." In time, additional data will be added to this collection. The call for data put out by the expert group has resulted in various researchers and agencies providing us access to data for the GBD-2005 project. We are in midst of processing these data sets and contacting data owners for permissions so that they can be made available here. Population estimates are derived from the United Nations World Population Prospects - 2006 publicly available from the UN Population Division website. What country-years are included in this data collection?The listing of country-years for which data is included in the current version can be found here.  (click image on right to make bigger)How was the mortality data processed prior to inclusion in this database?DATABASE PROCESSED TO GBD-INJURY DEFINITIONS We took the following steps to process this data to GBD-Injury definitions:
DATABASE PROCESSED TO ICE DEFINITIONS We reclassified the death registration data to the external cause categories described in the ICE external cause matrix. Note that the ICE definitions are for 4-digit ICD10 coded data. Hence for countries that had causes coded using 3-digit ICD-10 or ICD-9 are not available in the ICE version of the dataset. These are included in the GBD version of the dataset. What variables does this injury mortality data collection contain?The database contains the following variables:
How should this database be cited?Please cite this database as follows:
How can data be contributed to this database? Please see the call for data on the GBD-2005 injury expert group website. We would like to include as many country-years in this database as possible. Please contact kavibhalla@gmail.com if you have access to data from other countries that can be included in this database. Who should be contacted for more information?Please contact Kavi Bhalla (kavibhalla@gmail.com). |
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