Instruction Manual Part 2g
Data Entry Instructions for the Mortality Medical Indexing,
Classification, and Retrieval System

The basic purpose of this manual is to document the
instructions for machine entry of selected data from the
demographic portion of a death certificate and for
interpreting, standardizing, and entering the information
reported in the Medical Certification Section into machine
acceptable language.  It is to be used in conjunction with
the MICAR dictionary and the special rules for a given
State.  Special rules describe certificate format
peculiarities that are unique to each State along with any
special rules for handling these peculiarities in the
coding process.  Use of this manual requires that operators
be knowledgeable in anatomy and medical terminology.

The Instruction Manual is comprised of a single Wordperfect
file that has been compressed into the file 2GMANUAL.ZIP 
(414,857 bytes).  Uncompressed, the Wordperfect 6.1 file
is 1,135,944 bytes in size.

This instruction manual is also provided on the ftp server
in the pdf format.

Questions and comments regarding the format of this
files should be addressed to the Donna Hoyert, Room
820, MSB/NCHS, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD
20782.  Questions about the content of the manual
should be directed to the Data Preparation Branch,
NCHS, P.O. Box 12214, Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina 27709.

This material is provided by NCHS which is a subunit
of CDC/ATSDR.  It has been cleared for public
distribution by CDC/ATSDR and will be authentic if
gotten from ftp://ftp.cdc.gov. CDC/ATSDR takes all
effort to assure the authenicity of electronically
distributed documents.  However, in all instances
where the electronic and official agency record
differ, the authenicity of the official agency
record is controlling.