DCSSN

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID	NAACCR ID
E1742	None. State Requestor.

DESCRIPTION

Patient's social security number as stated on the death certificate.

LEVELS

Patients

LENGTH

9

ALLOWABLE VALUES

Any

SOURCE

Blank when patient is created.

UPDATE

Manual change or automatic upload from death clearance passive follow-up documents only.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES

3/17/97

This new field was added in order to capture Social Security Number as recorded on vital statistics records in a separate field.