California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

DC State File Number

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID

NAACCR ID

E1168

2830

DESCRIPTION

Unique State File Number assigned to the death certificate by the state specified in Death_File_No_St (Death File Number State).

LEVELS

Patients, Admissions

LENGTH

6

ALLOWABLE VALUES

er121 DC State File Number

000000

=

Patient is not dead

999999

=

DC SF# not known

Other

=

State File No.

SOURCE

If Other_Reg_ID is not blank or Reporting Facility is 0000000801, 0000000802, 0000000803, 0000000804, or 0000999996, and the transmitted DC State File Number value is not blank, then load the transmitted value without conversion (excepright-justify and zero-fill).

Otherwise,

If Vital_Status = 1, then Convert 000000 into DC State File Number

Else Convert 999999 into DC State File Number

UPDATE

Patient Active Follow-up Fields Update Logic

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

 

IF753 Place of Death, DC State File Number

IF357 DC State File Number, Vital Status

HISTORICAL CHANGES

5/01 Description modified due to the addition of DEATH-FILE-NO-ST.
1/07 Added IF #753 to edit the incorrect numbers that were being assigned or added during linkage and to reflect Vital Statistics information that California death file numbers would not be assigned above the annual mortality rate which is below.
2010 Data Item Changes: CCR name (Death_File_No) changed to match NAACCR name.