DC Birth Place

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID	NAACCR ID
E1587	None. State Requestor.

DESCRIPTION

State or country of the patient's birth as stated on the death certificate.

LEVELS

Patients

LENGTH

3

ALLOWABLE VALUES

Any

SOURCE

Blank when patient 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 birthplace as recorded on vital statistics records in a separate field.
12/2008	Field length changed to 3 for 2009 data changes.