Reports from the Vital Statistics Rapid Release Program
Vital Statistics Rapid Release Reports are based on the current flow of vital statistics data from state vital records offices and include annual reports of provisional birth data and topical analyses on vital statistics surveillance issues. These online-only reports provide additional methodological information or in-depth analyses on a specific topic or data set to help readers understand and interpret provisional mortality and natality data.
- No. 1. Timeliness of Death Certificate Data for Mortality Surveillance and Provisional Estimates pdf icon[PDF – 210 KB] (12/27/2016)
- No. 2. Births: Provisional Data for 2016 pdf icon[PDF – 798 KB] (06/30/2017)
- No. 3. Timeliness of Death Certificate Data for Suicides pdf icon[PDF – 941 KB] (04/06/2018)
- No. 4. Births: Provisional Data for 2017 pdf icon[PDF – 810 KB] (05/17/2018)
- No. 5. Timeliness of Infant Death Data for Infant Mortality Surveillance and Quarterly Provisional Estimates pdf icon[PDF – 345 KB] (06/04/2018)
- No. 6. Methods to Adjust Provisional Counts of Drug Overdose Deaths for Underreporting pdf icon[PDF – 621 KB] (08/20/2018)
- No. 7. Births: Provisional Data for 2018 pdf icon[PDF – 602 KB] (05/15/2019)
- No. 8. Births: Provisional Data for 2019 pdf icon[PDF – 408 KB] (05/20/2020
- No. 9. Timeliness of Death Certificate Data by Sex, Age, and Geography pdf icon[PDF – 597 KB] (06/26/2020)
Page last reviewed: June 26, 2020
Content source: National Center for Health Statistics