Methods:

For Stata/BE or IC users this current program outputs an NHANES dataset with 22 pre-specified variables. We curated a dataset with all the mortality records in the United States from 1959-2017 and wrote a basic Stata script that output a two-way plot showing annual trends in number of deaths during this period. We wrote a Stata program, mortality, that allows the user to define the time-period of interest, plus other parameters such as cause-of-death, and ultimately produce a similar two-way plot with the convenience of a Stata command.

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