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. 2017 Oct 10;14(10):e1002399. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002399

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
<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.