Final counts of deaths by the week the deaths occurred, by state of occurrence, and by select causes of death for 2014-2018, and Provisional counts of deaths by the week the deaths occurred, by state of occurrence, and by select underlying causes of death for 2019-2020. The dataset also includes weekly provisional counts of death for COVID-19, coded to ICD-10 code U07.1 as an underlying or multiple cause of death.
nchs_wdcA data frame with 347,706 rows and 7 variables:
jurisdictioncharacter Jurisdiction of Occurrence
yeardouble MMWR Year
weekdouble MMWR Week
week_ending_datedouble MMWR Week ending date
cause_detailedcharacter Cause with ICD Codes
ndouble Count of deaths
causecharacter Cause of death
2014-2019: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-and-Select-Causes/3yf8-kanr. 2020-2021: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-and-Select-Causes/muzy-jte6
For 2014-2019, death counts in this dataset were derived from the National Vital Statistics System database that provides the most timely access to the data. Therefore, counts may differ slightly from final data due to differences in processing, recoding, and imputation. For 2019-2021, the dataset also includes weekly provisional counts of death for COVID-19, coded to ICD-10 code U07.1 as an underlying or multiple cause of death. Number of deaths reported in this table are the total number of deaths received and coded as of the date of analysis, and do not represent all deaths that occurred in that period. Data for 2020 and 2021 are provisional and may be incomplete because of the lag in time between when the death occurred and when the death certificate is completed, submitted to NCHS and processed for reporting purposes. Causes of death included in this dataset are tabulated by underlying cause of death ICD-10 codes. COVID-19 deaths by underlying cause and multiple cause of death are also included.