Table 5. Misclassification rates for law-enforcement-related deaths in National Vital Statistics System mortality data based on cases matched to The Counted, 2015 (N = 991).
Percent misclassified | State (abbreviation) by number of deaths | ||
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<10 deaths | 10 to <20 deaths | ≥20 deaths | |
<20% | Connecticut (CT), Delaware (DE), District of Columbia (DC), Hawaii (HI), Maine (ME), Montana (MT), New Hampshire (NH), South Dakota (SD) | Oregon (OR) | (None) |
20 to <40% | West Virginia (WV) | Maryland (MD), Massachusetts (MA), New Jersey (NJ), New Mexico (NM), Utah (UT), Virginia (VA) | North Carolina (NC), Washington (WA) |
40 to <60% | Idaho (ID), New York City1, Wyoming (WY) | Kansas (KS), Kentucky (KY), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Nevada (NV), New York (NY), Wisconsin (WI) | California (CA), Colorado (CO), Georgia (GA), Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Ohio (OH), Pennsylvania (PA) |
60 to <80% | Alaska (AK), Iowa (IA) | Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), South Carolina (SC), Tennessee (TN) | Arizona (AZ), Florida (FL), Texas (TX) |
≥80% | Arkansas (AR), North Dakota (ND), Nebraska (NE), Vermont (VT) | Alabama (AL) | Louisiana (LA), Oklahoma (OK) |
The matched dataset did not include any deaths from Rhode Island.
1New York City reports deaths to the National Vital Statistics System independently of New York State.