Mortality Query Module Configuration Selection

Overview

Overview

Click on either the Quick Selection or Advanced Selection bar to see a list of measures available. Use the hierarchical folder tree to navigate to the query module that will meet your needs. To see folder contents, click on the folder icon. Clicking on the folder again will hide the menu folder contents. When you click on the text link, it will take you to the query module. For further explanation on the modules, click on the "Help" button to the right.

Use Quick selection to select a measure from the Mortality module from 1999 and later, by county and LHD. Use Advanced selection to select data from other years or to select data by small area.
Quick Selection (Click here for most commonly used measures)

Select from this list to query deaths from 1999 and later by county and health district. For earlier years (1998 and before), small areas and maps, use Advanced Selection below. 

Count

This module returns the number of deaths.
Counts

Crude Rate

This module returns the number of deaths, the number in the population, the death rate (deaths per 100,000 persons), and the upper and lower 95% confidence interval limits for the rate.
Crude Rates

Age-Adjusted Rates

This module returns the number of deaths, the number in the population, the age-adjusted death rate (deaths per 100,000 persons, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population), and the upper and lower 95% confidence interval limits for the rate.
Age-adjusted Rates

Leading Causes of Death by Count

This module calculates the number of deaths for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the number of deaths for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Count

Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rate

This module calculates death rates (number of deaths per 100,000) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area.

There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rate

Leading Causes of Death by Age-Adjusted Rate

This module calculates age-adjusted death rates (number of deaths per 100,000, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the age-adjusted death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Age-adjusted Rates

Average Age at Time of Death

This module returns the average age at death. You can filter or group the data by cause of death, year, age, sex, and geographic area.
Average Age at Time of Death
Advanced Selection (Click here for Small Area and Comparability Modified)

Select the Geographic Area 

County and Local Health District
Years 1998 and before (ICD-9 coding system)

Count

This module returns the number of deaths.
Counts
Crude Rates

Crude Rate

This module returns the number of deaths, the number in the population, the death rate (deaths per 100,000 persons), and the upper and lower 95% confidence interval limits for the rate.
Data table and chart

Quartile Map

A "Quartile" map assigns areas to four groups. Each group includes the SAME NUMBER of areas. For instance, for local health districts, each group includes three areas. Group membership and map color are based on the rank order of area rates, from the lowest rate to the highest. The first quartile is colored white and consists of areas with the lowest rates. Areas with the darkest color have the highest rates. Percentile maps such as this assign 25% of the areas to the "highest" category, even when area rates are very close. In other words, just because an area is in the "highest" category doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is significantly high.
Data table and Quartile Map

High-Low-Same Map

A "High-Low-Same" map assigns areas to three groups. Group membership and map color are based on whether each area's rate is significantly different (higher or lower) from the state rate. An area's rate is considered significantly different if the overall state rate falls outside (above or below) the confidence interval for that area. Maps such as this one may lack color variation if the area rates are based on very few cases and have wide confidence intervals. In other words, just because an area's rate is statistically the "same" as the state rate doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is not meaningfully high or low.
Data table and High-Low-Same Map

Age-adjusted Rates

Number of deaths per 100,000 persons, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population.
Age-adjusted Rates

Age-Adjusted Rates

This module returns the number of deaths, the number in the population, the age-adjusted death rate (deaths per 100,000 persons, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population), and the upper and lower 95% confidence interval limits for the rate.
Data table and chart

Quartile Map

A "Quartile" map assigns areas to four groups. Each group includes the SAME NUMBER of areas. For instance, for local health districts, each group includes three areas. Group membership and map color are based on the rank order of area rates, from the lowest rate to the highest. The first quartile is colored white and consists of areas with the lowest rates. Areas with the darkest color have the highest rates. Percentile maps such as this assign 25% of the areas to the "highest" category, even when area rates are very close. In other words, just because an area is in the "highest" category doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is significantly high.
Data table and Quartile Map

High-Low-Same Map

A "High-Low-Same" map assigns areas to three groups. Group membership and map color are based on whether each area's rate is significantly different (higher or lower) from the state rate. An area's rate is considered significantly different if the overall state rate falls outside (above or below) the confidence interval for that area. Maps such as this one may lack color variation if the area rates are based on very few cases and have wide confidence intervals. In other words, just because an area's rate is statistically the "same" as the state rate doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is not meaningfully high or low.
Data table and High-Low-Same Map

Leading Causes of Death by Count

This module calculates the number of deaths for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the number of deaths for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Counts

Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rate

This module calculates death rates (number of deaths per 100,000) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area.

There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rates

Leading Causes of Death by Age-Adjusted Rate

This module calculates age-adjusted death rates (number of deaths per 100,000, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the age-adjusted death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Age-adjusted Rates

Average Age at Time of Death

This module returns the average age at death. You can filter or group the data by cause of death, year, age, sex, and geographic area.
Average Age at Time of Death
Years 1999 and later (ICD-10 coding system)

Count

This module returns the number of deaths.
Counts

Crude Rate

This module returns the number of deaths, the number in the population, the death rate (deaths per 100,000 persons), and the upper and lower 95% confidence interval limits for the rate.
Crude Rates

Crude Rate

This module returns the number of deaths, the number in the population, the death rate (deaths per 100,000 persons), and the upper and lower 95% confidence interval limits for the rate.
Data table and chart

Quartile Map

A "Quartile" map assigns areas to four groups. Each group includes the SAME NUMBER of areas. For instance, for local health districts, each group includes three areas. Group membership and map color are based on the rank order of area rates, from the lowest rate to the highest. The first quartile is colored white and consists of areas with the lowest rates. Areas with the darkest color have the highest rates. Percentile maps such as this assign 25% of the areas to the "highest" category, even when area rates are very close. In other words, just because an area is in the "highest" category doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is significantly high.
Data table and Quartile Map

High-Low-Same Map

A "High-Low-Same" map assigns areas to three groups. Group membership and map color are based on whether each area's rate is significantly different (higher or lower) from the state rate. An area's rate is considered significantly different if the overall state rate falls outside (above or below) the confidence interval for that area. Maps such as this one may lack color variation if the area rates are based on very few cases and have wide confidence intervals. In other words, just because an area's rate is statistically the "same" as the state rate doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is not meaningfully high or low.
Data table and High-Low-Same Map

Age-adjusted Rates

Number of deaths per 100,000 persons, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population.
Age-adjusted Rates

Leading Causes of Death by Count

This module calculates the number of deaths for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the number of deaths for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Counts

Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rate

This module calculates death rates (number of deaths per 100,000) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area.

There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rates

Leading Causes of Death by Age-Adjusted Rate

This module calculates age-adjusted death rates (number of deaths per 100,000, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the age-adjusted death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Age-adjusted Rates

Average Age at Time of Death

This module returns the average age at death. You can filter or group the data by cause of death, year, age, sex, and geographic area.
Average Age at Time of Death

When To Use Comparability-Adjusted Modules

Only use the comparability-adjusted mortality module when you need both years before and after 1999. In the comparability module the years prior to 1999 are comparability modified so if the years you are looking at are only before 1999 then you should use the 1998 and earlier ICD-9 module to obtain the most useful data.

Comparability Ratios

A comparability ratio measures the level of agreement between ICD-9 and ICD-10 classification systems. NCHS provides "comparability ratios" for 113 selected causes of death by a double-coding exercise using 1996 death data. NCHS coded 1.8 million death certifications from 1996 first using ICD-9 and then using ICD-10. Based on that double-coding, NCHS has produced the set of Comparability Ratios for 113 Selected Causes of Death. Each ratio is an expression of the results of the comparison as a ratio of death for a cause of death by the later revision divided by the number of cause of death coded and classified by the earlier revision. To accurately portray trends that include both years 1980-1998 and 1999 on, the death counts or rates for the earlier years must be "comparability modified." This is accomplished by multiplying the earlier death count (or rate) by the comparability ratio for that cause of death.
Years 1980-present, comparability modified for 1980-1998

Count

This module returns the number of deaths.
Counts

Crude Rate

This module returns the number of deaths, the number in the population, the death rate (deaths per 100,000 persons), and the upper and lower 95% confidence interval limits for the rate.
Crude Rates

Age-Adjusted Rates

This module returns the number of deaths, the number in the population, the age-adjusted death rate (deaths per 100,000 persons, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population), and the upper and lower 95% confidence interval limits for the rate.
Age-adjusted Rates

Leading Causes of Death by Count

This module calculates the number of deaths for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the number of deaths for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Counts

Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rate

This module calculates death rates (number of deaths per 100,000) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area.

There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rates

Leading Causes of Death by Age-Adjusted Rate

This module calculates age-adjusted death rates (number of deaths per 100,000, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the age-adjusted death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Age-adjusted Rates

Average Age at Time of Death

This module returns the average age at death. You can filter or group the data by cause of death, year, age, sex, and geographic area.
Average Age at Time of Death
Utah's 61 Small Areas
Years 1998 and before (ICD-9 coding system)

Count

This module returns the number of deaths.
Counts
Crude Rates

Crude Rate

This module returns the number of deaths, the number in the population, the death rate (deaths per 100,000 persons), and the upper and lower 95% confidence interval limits for the rate.
Data table and chart

Quartile Map

A "Quartile" map assigns areas to four groups. Each group includes the SAME NUMBER of areas. For instance, for local health districts, each group includes three areas. Group membership and map color are based on the rank order of area rates, from the lowest rate to the highest. The first quartile is colored white and consists of areas with the lowest rates. Areas with the darkest color have the highest rates. Percentile maps such as this assign 25% of the areas to the "highest" category, even when area rates are very close. In other words, just because an area is in the "highest" category doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is significantly high.
Data table and Quartile Map

High-Low-Same Map

A "High-Low-Same" map assigns areas to three groups. Group membership and map color are based on whether each area's rate is significantly different (higher or lower) from the state rate. An area's rate is considered significantly different if the overall state rate falls outside (above or below) the confidence interval for that area. Maps such as this one may lack color variation if the area rates are based on very few cases and have wide confidence intervals. In other words, just because an area's rate is statistically the "same" as the state rate doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is not meaningfully high or low.
Data table and High-Low-Same Map

Age-adjusted Rates

Number of deaths per 100,000 persons, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population.
Age-adjusted Rates

Age-Adjusted Rates

This module returns the number of deaths, the number in the population, the age-adjusted death rate (deaths per 100,000 persons, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population), and the upper and lower 95% confidence interval limits for the rate.
Data table and chart

Quartile Map

A "Quartile" map assigns areas to four groups. Each group includes the SAME NUMBER of areas. For instance, for local health districts, each group includes three areas. Group membership and map color are based on the rank order of area rates, from the lowest rate to the highest. The first quartile is colored white and consists of areas with the lowest rates. Areas with the darkest color have the highest rates. Percentile maps such as this assign 25% of the areas to the "highest" category, even when area rates are very close. In other words, just because an area is in the "highest" category doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is significantly high.
Data table and Quartile Map

High-Low-Same Map

A "High-Low-Same" map assigns areas to three groups. Group membership and map color are based on whether each area's rate is significantly different (higher or lower) from the state rate. An area's rate is considered significantly different if the overall state rate falls outside (above or below) the confidence interval for that area. Maps such as this one may lack color variation if the area rates are based on very few cases and have wide confidence intervals. In other words, just because an area's rate is statistically the "same" as the state rate doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is not meaningfully high or low.
Data table and High-Low-Same Map

Leading Causes of Death by Count

This module calculates the number of deaths for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the number of deaths for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Counts

Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rate

This module calculates death rates (number of deaths per 100,000) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area.

There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rates

Leading Causes of Death by Age-Adjusted Rate

This module calculates age-adjusted death rates (number of deaths per 100,000, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the age-adjusted death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Age-adjusted Rates

Average Age at Time of Death

This module returns the average age at death. You can filter or group the data by cause of death, year, age, sex, and geographic area.
Average Age at Time of Death
Years 1999 and later (ICD-10 coding system)

Count

This module returns the number of deaths.
Counts
Crude Rates

Age-adjusted Rates

Number of deaths per 100,000 persons, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population.
Age-adjusted Rates

Leading Causes of Death by Count

This module calculates the number of deaths for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the number of deaths for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Counts

Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rate

This module calculates death rates (number of deaths per 100,000) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area.

There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rates

Leading Causes of Death by Age-Adjusted Rate

This module calculates age-adjusted death rates (number of deaths per 100,000, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the age-adjusted death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Age-adjusted Rates

Average Age at Time of Death

This module returns the average age at death. You can filter or group the data by cause of death, year, age, sex, and geographic area.
Average Age at Time of Death

When To Use Comparability-Adjusted Modules

Only use the comparability-adjusted mortality module when you need both years before and after 1999. In the comparability module the years prior to 1999 are comparability modified so if the years you are looking at are only before 1999 then you should use the 1998 and earlier ICD-9 module to obtain the most useful data.

Comparability Ratios

A comparability ratio measures the level of agreement between ICD-9 and ICD-10 classification systems. NCHS provides "comparability ratios" for 113 selected causes of death by a double-coding exercise using 1996 death data. NCHS coded 1.8 million death certifications from 1996 first using ICD-9 and then using ICD-10. Based on that double-coding, NCHS has produced the set of Comparability Ratios for 113 Selected Causes of Death. Each ratio is an expression of the results of the comparison as a ratio of death for a cause of death by the later revision divided by the number of cause of death coded and classified by the earlier revision. To accurately portray trends that include both years 1980-1998 and 1999 on, the death counts or rates for the earlier years must be "comparability modified." This is accomplished by multiplying the earlier death count (or rate) by the comparability ratio for that cause of death.
Years 1990-present, comparability modified for 1990-1998

Count

This module returns the number of deaths.
Counts

Crude Rate

This module returns the number of deaths, the number in the population, the death rate (deaths per 100,000 persons), and the upper and lower 95% confidence interval limits for the rate.
Crude Rates

Age-Adjusted Rates

This module returns the number of deaths, the number in the population, the age-adjusted death rate (deaths per 100,000 persons, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population), and the upper and lower 95% confidence interval limits for the rate.
Age-adjusted Rates

Leading Causes of Death by Count

This module calculates the number of deaths for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the number of deaths for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Counts

Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rate

This module calculates death rates (number of deaths per 100,000) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area.

There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rates

Leading Causes of Death by Age-Adjusted Rate

This module calculates age-adjusted death rates (number of deaths per 100,000, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population) for the NCHS 50 leading causes of death, and returns the age-adjusted death rates for the leading causes.

You can filter the data by year, age, sex, and geographic area. There are no grouping variables available for this selection.
Leading Causes of Death by Age-adjusted Rates

Average Age at Time of Death

This module returns the average age at death. You can filter or group the data by cause of death, year, age, sex, and geographic area.
Average Age at Time of Death
Injury Selection (Click here for UDOH Injury Categories and Custom E-Codes)

Select the Time Period (Different time periods used different systems for coding cause of death) 

County and Local Health District, Years 1998 and before (ICD-9 coding system)

Count

This module returns the number of deaths.
Counts
Crude Rates

Crude Rate

A crude rate is a fraction, in which the numerator is the number of people in whom an event occurred during a certain period of time, and the denominator is the total number of people in the population at risk for the same period of time.
Data table and chart

Quartile Map

A "Quartile" map assigns areas to four groups. Each group includes the SAME NUMBER of areas. For instance, for local health districts, each group includes three areas. Group membership and map color are based on the rank order of area rates, from the lowest rate to the highest. The first quartile is colored white and consists of areas with the lowest rates. Areas with the darkest color have the highest rates. Percentile maps such as this assign 25% of the areas to the "highest" category, even when area rates are very close. In other words, just because an area is in the "highest" category doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is significantly high.
Data table and Quartile Map

High-Low-Same Map

A "High-Low-Same" map assigns areas to three groups. Group membership and map color are based on whether each area's rate is significantly different (higher or lower) from the state rate. An area's rate is considered significantly different if the overall state rate falls outside (above or below) the confidence interval for that area. Maps such as this one may lack color variation if the area rates are based on very few cases and have wide confidence intervals. In other words, just because an area's rate is statistically the "same" as the state rate doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is not meaningfully high or low.
Data table and High-Low-Same Map

Age-adjusted Rates

Number of deaths per 100,000 persons, age-standardized to the U.S. 2000 population.
Age-adjusted Rates