California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Addr at DX--Postal Code

IDENTIFIERS

DESCRIPTION

ZIP code of patient's residence at diagnosis. May be entered for any country.

LEVELS

Tumors, Admissions

LENGTH

9

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er038 Addr at DX--Postal Code

Nine-digit US ZIP code; 9's if US or Canadian resident, unknown zip; if first 5 <> 9's and last 4 unknown, then last 4 blank; 8's if unknown outside USA and Canada.

If the code is known, regardless of the country that it is in, the postal code should be entered here. Alpha characters allowed.

SOURCE

If both of the following conditions are true:

• the first 5 characters are NOT 99999

• the last 4 characters are 9999

then reset the last 4 characters to blank.

If both of the following conditions are true:

• the first 5 characters are 99999

• the last 4 characters are NOT 9999

then reset the last 4 characters to 9999.

UPDATE

Tumor Level

New Case Consolidation

If Admission level Addr at DX--Postal Code = 9s do nothing,

Else

If Tumor level Addr at DX--Postal Code = 9s (and Admission level Addr at DX--Postal Code does not =9s, )

move Admission level Addr at DX--Postal Code to Tumor level Addr at DX--Postal Code

Else,

if Admission level Addr at DX--Postal Code (first 5) = Tumor level Addr at DX--Postal Code (first 5)

If (Tumor level Addr at DX--Postal Code (last 4) = blank or 9's and Admission level Addr at DX--Postal Code (last 4) does not = blank or 9's),

move Admission level Addr at DX--Postal Code to Tumor level Addr at DX--Postal Code

Else,

if Tumor level Addr at DX--Postal Code (last 4) does not = blank or 9s and Admission level Addr at DX--Postal Code (last 4) = blank or 9s

do nothing

Else,

If either are within the range 900000000 to 966999999

list for review.

Manual Change

If first five characters of Addr at DX--Postal Code = 99999,

then automatically set last 4 characters to 9999.

Admission Level

Manual Change

If first five characters of Addr at DX--Postal Code = 99999,

then automatically set last 4 characters to 9999.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

IF307 Addr at DX--Postal Code, State, Date of Diagnosis

IF355 Addr at DX--City, Postal Code, State, County at DX

HISTORICAL CHANGES