Reporting Area In the National Vital Statistics System, the reporting area for such basic items on the birth and death certificates as age, race, and sex, is based on data from residents of all 50 States in the United States and the District of Columbia (DC). The reporting area for selected items such as Hispanic origin, educational attainment, and marital status, is based on data from those States that require the item to be reported, whose data meet a minimum level of completeness (such as, 80 or 90 percent), and are considered to be sufficiently comparable to be used for analysis. In 1993-96 the reporting area for Hispanic origin of decedent on the death certificate included 49 States and the District of Columbia. Starting in 1997 the Hispanic reporting area included all 50 States and DC. SOURCE: Health, United States Related
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