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INDIANA MORTALITY REPORT
2017

Preface


The 2017 Indiana Mortality Report provides a summary of all the deaths of residents of Indiana during 2017 classified by the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) cause of death code.  Summary tables have also been developed for each county and selected cities within Indiana.  The information provided in these tables is intended for health professionals, students, legislators, and others interested in the health status of the Indiana community.

The 2017 Indiana Mortality Report uses the ICD-10 coding system to classify and group causes of death.  The ICD-9 coding system was in use from 1978 to 1998.  Although these two systems have much in common, causes of death in this report are exactly comparable to causes of death since 1999, but not to causes in previous reports.

The 2017 Indiana Mortality Report also uses the 2000 standard million population to age-adjust the mortality rates.  Reports before 1999 used the 1940 standard million population.  Consequently, rates in this report are comparable to rates since 1999, but not to rates in previous reports.  State-level rates based on the 2000 standard million population were calculated for 113 selected causes of death for the years 1995-1998 and are available in Table 1a of the 1999 Indiana Mortality Report.

Information is provided to the State on each cause of death under the authority of Indiana Code 16-37-1-3

The leading causes of death and populations of interest are provided in the tables within the Highlights section. The intent of this publication is to provide information to assess the changing health status of the community, to develop resources and interventions in areas of need, and to improve modifiable health risk behaviors for adverse health conditions.

On January 1, 2008, Indiana began using the 2003 US Standard Certificate of Death. Much of the data collected has stayed the same; however, categories for marital status, facility type, educational level, and pregnancy status for females at the time of death have been expanded.  Also, a question is now asked as to whether tobacco use contributed to the death.

Indiana now uses the 1997 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standards for collecting data on race and ethnicity. Starting with the 2008 death certificate, more than one box can be checked for race of the decedent.  All racial and ethnicity information is now sent to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) which imputes a single ("bridged") race for the decedent based on the combination of races, Hispanic origin, sex, and age.  This "bridged" race is what is used in this report. The relationship between these two OMB standards and the terms used to report race and ethnicity in this report is as follows:

Race
1997 OMB Standards
1977 OMB Standards
This Report
American Indian or Alaska Native
American Indian or Alaska Native
Included in Other
Asian
Asian or Pacific Islander
Included in Other
Black or African American
Black
Black
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
Asian or Pacific Islander
Included in Other
White
White
White

 
 

Ethnicity
1997 OMB Standards
1977 OMB Standards
This Report
Hispanic or Latino
Hispanic
Hispanic
not Hispanic or Latino
non-Hispanic
non-Hispanic

The data file for this report was closed on September 14, 2018.

Most tables in this report will print on one page (8.5" x 11") if margins are set to 0.25" in all dimensions and the tables are viewed at the smallest font size.

For questions about this report, please call 317.233.7349 or e-mail data-analysis@isdh.in.gov.

National data are available at www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm.