NCJ Number
133741
Date Published
1991
Length
301 pages
Annotation
Statistical data on unnatural deaths in Australia are encoded to facilitate investigation by the Coroner.
Abstract
The codes used were obtained from the National Injury Surveillance and Prevention Project and include location, context, mechanism, intent, breakdown, event, and contributing factors. Within the codes, data are further categorized according to age, gender, manner of death by intent, employment status of person who died an unnatural death, external cause of death, type of location at which death occurred, activity undertaken by the deceased at time of injury, precipitating breakdown event, mechanism of injury, and instrument of death. Further analyses of unnatural death covers age at date of accident by intent, intent of injury by day of week and gender and by age group, gender and calendar month of accident, context by mechanism of injury and gender, location by intent, gender and factor one, occupation by gender, and type of location by occupation. Elapsed days and frequency distribution of day between date of death and finding, days between date of accident and date of death by gender, and cases awaiting finding are also included.