National Vital Statistics System

Data and publications

• Vital Statistics of the United States: The data set goes back to 1890.
• National Vital Statistics Report: This is a monthly report that goes back to January 1998. The earlier version of this report, called the Monthly Vital Statistics Report, goes back to July 1964.
• Other reports

Related programs

• Linked Birth and Infant Death Data Set
• National Survey of Family Growth
• Matched Multiple Birth Data Set
• National Death Index
• National Maternal and Infant Health Survey
• National Mortality Followback Survey

  Reception and impact

Academic research

Use as a standard source