This file contains the exemplar list of historic strings together with the ICD10h codes and descriptions associated with the ICD10h (Historic cause of death coding and classification scheme for individual-level causes of death). ICD10h has been designed by the authors to aid the coding and classification of causes of death recorded on historic individual death records and associated files include a manual, the list of codes, descriptions and values of a general categorisation, and a categorisation for infant mortality. The ICD10h system is based on the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases - 2016 version (ICD10 - 2016), and combines ICD10 codes (without modification) with new codes for archaic/historic terms.

The data was derived from the following projects/deposited data: Determining the Demography of Victorian Scotland Through Record Linkage, ESRC RES-000-23-0128 held at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge; P. Gunn and R. Kippen, ‘Household and Family Formation in Nineteenth-Century Tasmania, Dataset of 195 Thousand Births, 93 Thousand Deaths and 51 Thousand Marriages Registered in Tasmania, 1838-1899’, 2008.

The resource creation was supported by the following projects: Digitising Scotland/Scottish Health Informatics Project (funded by the ESRC); Studying Health in Port Cities (funded by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research); The Great Leap (funded by COST-Action CA22116).

SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

This resource is available under a CC BY licence.

Recommended citation for this dataset: Historic cause of death coding and classification scheme for individual-level causes of death – English language historic strings [https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.109962.2]

Please see the associated resources: Historic cause of death coding and classification scheme for individual-level causes of death – manual [https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.109960.2] Historic cause of death coding and classification scheme for individual-level causes of death – Codes [https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.109961.2] Historic cause of death coding and classification scheme for individual-level causes of death – Infant Categorisations [https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.109963.2]

ICD10h is a research tool created to facilitate the study of historical cause of death records and should not be used for any official purpose. It is based on the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) version 2016 (Geneva: World Health Organization 2016) but is not a recognised version or extension of ICD-10 and is not authorised by WHO. However we have consulted with WHO: they recognise that ICD10h is a useful academic methodology and have not raised any objections to its creation. Data coded using ICD10h are not directly comparable with data coded in ICD-10, and the underlying or primary cause of death derived using the ICD10h methodology may be different from the underlying cause derived in ICD-10 according to the WHO rules. Please note that ICD-10 version 2016 is not the most recent version of ICD-10; and that WHO now recommend the use of ICD-11; a more advanced and detailed classification.

DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

ICD10h_HistoricStringsEnglish.xlsx Excel file consisting of 2 worksheets:

1. ReadMe sheet
2. HistoricStringsEnglish

Separate csv file for 2) containing the same information.

This file builds on a previous, unpublished version of ICD10h (dating from 2020).

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

The data were hand-coded and subject to stringent algorithm-assisted tests.

DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: HistoricStringsEnglish

Number of variables: 7

Number of cases/rows: 3306

Variable List: ID_HistoricStrings (unique ID for HistoricStrings table) HistoricString (Historic cause of death string as encountered in records) ICD10h (ICD10h code) ICD10hInjury (additional ICD10h code for injuries) ICD10hDescription (ICD10h description) ICD10hInjuryDescription (additional ICD10h description for injuries) CancerMalignancyFlag (0=not a neoplasm; 1=no information on malignancy; 2=stated to be malignant; 3=stated to be benign; 4=stated to be of uncertain behaviour)