Variable Results: select a codeset to view more information about the types of data that is available
| vstat | Vital status code | This field contains a code indicating the vital status of the person, either alive, dead, or unknown (meaning lost to follow-up). Some persons may have been problems and are indicated as such, meaming a good vital status may not have been obtainable // Notes: "Codes: A - alive D - dead U - unknown X - a problem was encountered in ascertaining a vital status for this individual this may be a conflict, discrepancy, or other reasons Several outside sources are used in trying to ascertain the status of people. Some people become "lost to follow-up" meaning these outside sources cannot provide any information on them. These people become "unknown"." | | | ONE |
| ldate | Last date known for this individual | This field contains the last date known for this person. If deceased, this is the date of death. If the person is alive, it is the last date known that the person was alive. // Notes: The cutoff date for this study was 12/31/1984. | | | TWO |
| fhire | First hire date at fac of 5 rem exp | This is the first hire date the person had at the facility where the 5 rem exposure occurred. This date was furnished by the facility. | | | TWO |
| lterm | Last term date at fac of 5 rem exp | This is the last term date the person had at the facility where the 5 rem exposure occurred. This date was furnished by the facility. | | | TWO |
| birth | Birth date of individual | This field contains the birth date of the individual as furnished by the facility, or ascertained from work history records. | | | TWO |
| ca8 | ICD8 code for cancer cause of death | This field contains an ICD code (8th revision) if there was a a cause of death that was a cancer. If none, the field is left blank. // Notes: ICD8 is the ICD code that that nosologist has determined to be the 'underlying' cause of death of the individual. There are basically two methods of coding - 'underlying' and 'all causes'. The decision was made early on in CER's history that we would do 'underlying'. The CA8 is an ICD code containing a cancer code if something was detected by the nosologist on the death certificate indicating a cancer was present. For example, a person may have died in a motor vehicle accident and that would have been the underlying cause of death, but an autopsy also revealed that the person had lung cancer and it was noted by the physician completing the DC. The nosologist would pick up that piece of information and note it in the CA8 field. Obviously, CA8 will not be populated on every record. The 8 on both of these variable names means the ICD code is coded using the 8th revision of the ICD code structure. | | | THREE |
| fac1 | Facility code | This is a code indicating a facility the person was known to have worked at. This is derived from the CER Data Model, by combining work history information from multiple sites. // Notes: Codes: 1 = NLO/FMPC - Fernald 105 = Mrem system non-DOE employees (5 rem) 108 = Bethlehem Steel 18 = Battelle-Columbus 19 = Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory 2 = Mound 20 = Brookhaven Laboratory 21 = Linde 22 = Savannah River 26 = Center for Energy and Environmental Research (CEER) 27 = Charleston Naval Shipyard 28 = Comparative Animal Research Laboratory (CARL) 29 = Energy Systems Group (ESG) 3 = Mallinckrodt Chemical Works 32 = Fermi Laboratory 34 = General Dynamics - Groton Shipyard 37 = Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) 38 = Ingalls 4 = TEC 41 = Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) 42 = Knolls - Idaho site 43 = Knolls - Windsor site 47 = Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 48 = Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Nevada Test Site 49 = Hanford incidents/accidents (5 rem) 5 = K-25 (Oak Ridge) 51 = Hanford 52 = Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) 53 = Rocky Flats 54 = Baneberry 55 = Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLL) 59 = Electro Metallurgical Company (ELECTROMET) 6 = Y-12 (Oak Ridge) 61 = Middlesex 62 = Argonne Laboratory (5 rem only) 63 = Mare Island Shipyard 66 = Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) 67 = REECO - Nevada Test site 68 = New Brunswick Laboratory 69 = Newport News Shipyard 7 = Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL, X-10) 70 = Norfolk Shipyard 73 = Pacific Northwest Laboratory 74 = Pacific Test site 75 = PANTEX Amarillo Plant 76 = Pearl Harbor Shipyard 78 = Pittsburgh Energy Research 79 = Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion 8 = SAM Laboratories 80 = Portsmouth Shipyard 85 = Sandia National Laboratory 86 = Shippingsport Atomic Power 9 = Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant 90 = Knolls - Kesserling site 91 = Hanford - Operations 92 = Hanford - Construction 94 = Harshaw 95 = Rust Engineering 97 = Zia Laboratory 98 = Holmes and Narver - Nevada Test site 99 = Special facility code for people unclassifiable | | FACCODE | TWO |
| fac2 | | This is a code indicating a second facility the person was known to have worked at. This is derived from the CER Data Model, by combining work history information from multiple sites. | | FACCODE | TWO |
| fac3 | Facility code | This is a code indicating a third facility the person was known to have worked at. This is derived from the CER Data Model, by combining work history information from multiple sites. | | FACCODE | TWO |
| fac4 | Facility code | This is a code indicating a fourth facility the person was known to have worked at. This is derived from the CER Data Model, by combining work history information from multiple sites. | | FACCODE | TWO |
| fac5 | Facility code | This is a code indicating a fifth facility the person was known to have worked at. This is derived from the CER Data Model, by combining work history information from multiple sites. | | FACCODE | TWO |
| icd8 | ICD8 code for underlying cause of death | This field contains a 3 character ICD code (8th revision) for the underlying cause of death as determined from the death certificate. This field is simply the first 3 charcters of the ICD8X field. If the person is alive, obviously this field is blank. // Notes: Death certificates used at CER were coded for underlying cause. This field was established to allow grouping of deaths without having to manipulate the ICD8X field. Also, it may be useful to some software that calculates SMRs. | | | THREE |
| icd8x | ICD8 code for underlying cause of death | This field contains an ICD code (8th revision) for the underlying cause of death as determined from the death certificate. If the person is alive, obviously this field is blank. // Notes: Death certificates used at CER were coded for underlying cause. | | | THREE |
| id | Pseudo identification number | This is a numeric pseudo identification number assigned to this person to ensure confidentiality. The numbers are assigned in no particular order, and are up to 6 digits in length. | | | ONE |
| no_fac | Number of facilities person worked at | This field contains the number of facilities this person was known to have worked at. | | | TWO |
| race | Race code | This field contains a code indicating what the person's race was/is. // Notes: Codes: B - black W - white R - other blank (or null) - unknown This is determined from records obtained from the facility. | | OR_RACE | TWO |
| sex | Sex code | This field contains a code indicating the gender of the person. // Notes: Codes: A - assigned as male based on name B - assigned as female based on name M - male F - female blank = unknown This is determined from records obtained from the facility. | | OR_SEX | TWO |
| facrm5 | Facility where 5 rem exposure occurred | This field contains a code representing the facility at which the person received the 5 rem exposure in a given year. // Notes: Long name: Code for facility where 5 rem exposure occurred | | FACCODE | TWO |
| conhire | Continuous employment indicator | This flag indicates if the person was known to have a continuous employment at the facility where the 5 rem exposure occurred. This means the person had no breaks in employment from the FHIRE date and the LTERM date in this record. // Notes: Codes: Y = yes, employment was continuous N = no, employment was not continuous U = unknown if continuous | | mffconhi | TWO |
| firexyr | Year in which 5 rem exposure occurred | This field contains the year in which the person received the first 5 rem exposure at the site (as defined in FAC5RM [facrm5]). | Year | | TWO |
| dose_fex | Dose of first exposure in rem | This field contains the first exposure the person received at the facility. This is an annual reading. // Notes: This may or may not be the 5 rem amount, but simply the first exposure for this person. | rem | | ONE |
| no_yrex | Number of years exposed | This field contains the total number of years the person worked where an exposure occurred, or was at risk for an exposure (if not monitored). | | | TWO |
| tot_exp | Total lifetime recorded exposure in rem | This field contains the recorded lifetime dose for this person, in rem. This value may or may not be applicable currently depending on whether the person has left the work force, if the person was deceased, or has moved to another job where exposures are possible, but these data have not been included in this file. // Notes: This field is useful primarily in comparing this cohort to itself to see how total exposures matched or compared with others. | | | TWO |
| borx | Flag: expos. may have occurred over 2 yr | This field contains a flag indicating if there was a suspicion the exposure of 5 rem occurred over a 2 year period instead of 1 year. // Notes: "Long name: Flag indicating if exposure may have occurred over 2 years Codes: B = indicates the exposure could have occurred over a 2 year period blank = no suspicion The protocol for the study stated the person must have received an exposure of 5 rem (external) within 1 calendar year. Each participating site made this determination, and some individuals were considered "borderline", thus this flag was established to indicate these people." | | mffborx | TWO |
| q_sex | sex from questionnaire | Sex from questionnaire. | | | TWO |
| q_race | race from questionnaire | Race from questionnaire. | | mffq_rac | TWO |
| seq_no | sequence number of row | Sequence Number of Row | | | ONE |
