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- Vital Statistics Data Access: 1968-most recent (ca. 2-yr. lag), PDF and raw ASCII data.
- NHGIS Vital Statistics: U.S. birth and death data in tabular format aggregated at the county and state levels for 1915-2007, and marriage & divorce data from 1867-2010. Scroll down to find all the Vital Statistics datasets.
- NBER: Data Category = Vital Statistics: The NBER's Public Use Data Archive, datasets filtered for Data Category = Vital Statistics. Scanned volumes as well as digital datasets; some data back to 1900.
- Historical annual volumes: 1890-2003, PDF format. From the National Center for Health Statistics.
- National Vital Statistics System Homepage: Information about collecting vital statistics data, with links to a lot of summary reports. From the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
Paper Copies: Vital Statistics of the United States
- Includes sections on natality (births), mortality, and sometimes on marriage/divorce
- Published by various agencies over time.
- Usually includes some geographic breakdowns, often by major cities (e.g,. 100,000+ population).
Locations:
- 1900-1936 mortality statistics : Dubester 3101 (Census Reference collection; see Census tab, above)
- 1915-1936 birth statistics : Dubester 3100 (Census Reference collection; see Census tab, above)
- 1937-1944 : Dubester 3103 (Census Reference collection; see Census tab, above)
- 1945-1967 : US Docs FS 2.112
- 1968-1969 : US Docs HE 20.2212
- 1970-1993 : US Docs HE 20.6210
