# Is there mortality data, specifically from 1910-1920?

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**Created:** [July 12, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/is-there-mortality-data-specifically-from-1910-1920/1813 "2017-07-12T05:43:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![egraul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@egraul](https://forum.ipums.org/u/egraul)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/is-there-mortality-data-specifically-from-1910-1920/1813/1 "2017-07-12T05:43:00Z")

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Looking for mortality data, anything that is available and globally, specifically on cause of death (influenza).

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**Author:** ![JeffBloem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.ipums.org/jeffbloem/32/40_2.png) [@JeffBloem](https://forum.ipums.org/u/JeffBloem)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/is-there-mortality-data-specifically-from-1910-1920/1813/2 "2017-07-12T17:55:00Z")

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I’m afraid IPUMS doesn’t have the data you are looking for. IPUMS Health Surveys has [mortality variables](https://ihis.ipums.org/ihis-action/variables/group?id=mortality_mortality) for the US, but only back into the 1980’s. IPUMS USA has data dating back to 1910 and 1920, but no variables indicating mortality. Finally, IPUMS International has [mortality variables](https://international.ipums.org/international-action/variables/live_search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_preferences%5Bsearching%5D=mortality&search_preferences%5Bsearch_mnemonic%5D=0&search_preferences%5Bsearch_mnemonic%5D=1&search_preferences%5Bsearch_label%5D=0&search_preferences%5Bsearch_label%5D=1&search_preferences%5Bsearch_description%5D=0&search_preferences%5Bsearch_description%5D=1&search_preferences%5Bsearch_categories%5D=0&search_preferences%5Bsearch_categories%5D=1&search_preferences%5Bintegrated%5D=0&search_preferences%5Bintegrated%5D=1&search_preferences%5Bunharmonized%5D=0&commit=Search) in a limited number of samples, but again these samples are more recent than 1910 or 1920.