National Death Index (NDI) is a United States resource available to researchers from the US
National Center for Health Statistics to obtain death status (regular NDI) or cause of death (NDI Plus) for deaths of citizens occurring within the US.
The fees for routine NDI searches consist of a $350.00 service charge plus $0.15 per user record for each year of death searched. For example, 1,000 records searched against 10 years would cost $350 + ($0.15 x 1,000 x 10) or $1,850. Fees for the NDI Plus service are slightly higher ($0.21) per record.
NDI is similar to
Social Security
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in terms of providing death status and date of death. However, NDI Plus service offers further information on cause of death.
The index was initially approved during
Dorothy P. Rice's tenure as director.
In 2011, the National Death Index was linked to the
General Social Survey
The General Social Survey (GSS) is a sociological survey created and regularly collected since 1972 by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. It is funded by the National Science Foundation. The GSS collects informa ...
, allowing for the analysis of societal attitudes and demographics, and their relationship to death.
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External links
* https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/ndi/about_ndi.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention