We're looking to quantify the long-term mortality of a retrospective case series/cohort. What is a suitable way to get these data from the U.S. social security death index? Search online? Request the data set? What resources in terms of time/money should we budget with?
Ariel Linden
You can manually look up deaths in the Social Security Death Index if you have the individual's name and social security number (this is free). I also believe you can purchase a file (or access) to do this on a larger scale.
I typically then cross reference the names to obituaries in local newspapers to make sure we didn't miss any
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