What are the Assurance of Confidentiality constraints for CMF?
The term “Suppressed” replaces some death counts and death rates. The mortality data are suppressed due to confidentiality constraints, due to concern for protecting personal privacy. For 1989 and later, counts and rates for counties with census year populations of less than 100,000, are replaced with “Suppressed” if the number of deaths is five or less (death count <=5) and the death count is based on only one or two years of data. Notes: • Data years 1999 and later reference the year 2000 population figures for suppression, data years 1979-1998 reference the year 1990 population figures for suppression. • For CMF 1979-1998, data for the following counties are available beginning in data year data 1994, and thus the 1994 population estimates are referenced for cell suppression purposes instead of the 1990 population estimates: • Aleutians East Borough, Alaska (FIPS code 02013), • Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska (FIPS code 02016), • Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska (FIPS code 0216
