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Berkeley Unified Numident Mortality Database: Public Administrative Records for Individual-Level Mortality Research

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  • Breen, Casey
  • Goldstein, Joshua R.

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While much progress has been made in understanding the demographic determinants of mortality in the United States using individual survey data and aggregate tabulations, the lack of population-level register data is a barrier to further advances in mortality research. With the release of Social Security application (SS-5), claim, and death records, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has created a new administrative data resource for researchers studying mortality. We introduce the Berkeley Unified Numident Mortality Database (BUNMD), a cleaned and harmonized version of these records. This publicly available dataset provides researchers access to over 49 million individual-level mortality records with demographic covariates and fine geographic detail, allowing for high-resolution mortality research.

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  • Breen, Casey & Goldstein, Joshua R., 2022. "Berkeley Unified Numident Mortality Database: Public Administrative Records for Individual-Level Mortality Research," SocArXiv pc294_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:pc294_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/pc294_v1
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