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Level: Beginner
Recommended Use: Classification
Domain: Health/Social Sciences


Accidental Drug Related Deaths in Connecticut, US


The Connecticut Deaths due to Drugs Dataset contains information about 5106 people who died due to drug overdose between 2012 and 2018 in Connecticut, US.

The dataset includes data related to the age, race, gender, place of residence of the victims as well as the drugs they overdosed on. This information can be used to understand if drug use is prevalent in a specific area or city, drug use by individuals of different age groups and races as well as the popularity of different types of drugs.

This dataset is recommended for exploring data visualization techniques, clustering techniques and implementing regression models to predict how drug use may increase over time.


Data Dictionary

Column Number Attribute Attribute Description Data Type
1 ID Row ID Text
2 Date Date Date/Time
3 DateType Type of Date in Column 2
[Date of Reporting ot Date of Death]
Text
4 Age Age of Patient Numeric
5 Sex Sex of Patient Text
6 Race Race of Patient Text
7 ResidenceCity City of Residence Text
8 ResidenceCounty County of Residence Text
9 ResidenceState State of Residence Text
10 DeathCity City of Death Text
11 DeathCounty County of Death Text
12 Location Location of Death [Hospital or Residence] Text
13 LocationifOther Location of Death if Not Hospital or Residence Text
14 DescriptionofInjury Cause of Death Text
15 InjuryPlace Place of Event that caused Death Text
16 InjuryCity City of Event that caused Death Text
17 InjuryCounty County of Event that caused Death Text
18 InjuryState State of Event that caused Death Text
19 COD Detailed Cause of Death Text
20 OtherSignifican Other Significant Injuries that may have lead to Death Text
21 Heroin Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
22 Cocaine Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
23 Fentanyl Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
24 FentanylAnalogue Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
25 Oxycodone Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
26 Oxymorphone Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
27 Ethanol Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
28 Hydrocodone Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
29 Benzodiazepine Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
30 Methadone Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
31 Amphet Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
32 Tramad Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
33 Morphine_NotHeroin Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
34 Hydromorphone Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
35 Other Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
36 OpiateNOS Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
37 AnyOpioid Drug Found in Body [Y/N] Text/Bool
38 MannerofDeath Manner of Death Text
39 DeathCityGeo City of Death Text
40 ResidenceCityGeo City of Residence Text
41 InjuryCityGeo City of Injury Text

Acknowledgement

This data set has been sourced from the US Government's Open Data Initiative Accidental Drug Related Deaths Dataset.
The Open Data Initiative page mentions the following as the original source of the data set:
Local Government, Connecticut