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    • Suicide Among Veterans and Other Americans 2001–2014 Report

    Metadata Updated: April 25, 2021

    This report provides information regarding suicide mortality for the years 2001–2014. It incorporates the most recent mortality data from the VA/Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Suicide Data Repository and includes information for deaths from suicide among all known Veterans of U.S. military service. Data for the Joint VA/DoD Suicide Data Repository were obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics’ National Death Index through collaboration with the DoD, the CDC, and the VA/DoD Joint Suicide Data Repository initiative. Data available from the National Death Index include reports of mortality submitted from vital statistics systems in all 50 U.S. states, New York City, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 25, 2021

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 25, 2021
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier VA-VHA-10N-016
    Data First Published 2017-07-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-05-15
    Rights Contains Health Insurance Portability and Accountabilty Act (HIPAA) protected data.
    Category Basic Statistics, Use, and Operational Data
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 029:15
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/docs/2016suicidedatareport.pdf
    Data Dictionary Type application/pdf
    Harvest Object Id eb516de2-9a77-4132-a691-60781d15d23e
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL http://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:042
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash b2b3171f5be118f175681a591fd9182daf25efff
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2001-01-01T05:00:00Z/2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

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