What are the Assurance of Confidentiality constraints for the data?
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. Small death counts are not suppressed for counties with small populations if three or The "total deaths" sum shown for each query includes the suppressed data. The confidentiality constraints and use of the "Unreliable" flag are established by the original data providers. For more information, please contact the data providers.
