U.S. Fatal and Nonfatal Injury Surveillance Data for 2001
by Sara B. Vyrostek / National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
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Description
January-December 2001 data on fatal and nonfatal injuries in the United States, compiled by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The report details approximately 157,078 injury deaths and an estimated 29.7 million nonfatal injury emergency department visits, broken down by age, sex, intent, and mechanism. Fatal data originates from the National Vital Statistics System, while nonfatal data is sourced from the NEISS All Injury Program and the Firearm Injury Surveillance Study.
Use Cases
Compare fatal and nonfatal injury rates based on demographic variables like age and sex mentioned in the description.
Analyze the distribution of injury intent (unintentional vs. violence-related) for mortality and morbidity outcomes.
Study leading causes of injury, such as motor-vehicle incidents for fatalities and falls for nonfatal injuries, across population subgroups.
Investigate case-fatality rate variations by mechanism, including drowning, suffocation, and firearm-related injuries.
Strengths
Provides specific national totals for 2001: 157,078 fatal injuries and 29,721,821 nonfatal injury ED visits.
Includes detailed breakdowns by key variables: age, sex, intent (unintentional, violence-related), and mechanism of injury.
Derives data from established national surveillance systems: NVSS for fatalities and NEISS-AIP/NEISS for nonfatal injuries.
Limitations
Row count and column-level documentation are unknown; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Data is from a single year (2001); longitudinal or trend analysis is not possible with this snapshot.
Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
Source
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, authored by Sara B. Vyrostek.
Collection Method
Fatal data from death certificates via the National Vital Statistics System. Nonfatal data from stratified probability samples of U.S. hospital emergency departments via NEISS-AIP and NEISS.
Time Range
January 2001 - December 2001
Geography
United States
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