WISH Data Sources
Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Data
Wisconsin Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, Office of Health Informatics, Division
of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Birth Data
Resident birth certificates, Office of Health Informatics, Division
of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Cancer Incidence Data
Wisconsin Cancer Reporting System, Office of Health Informatics, Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Cancer Mortality Data
National Center for Health Statistics, Wisconsin county cancer mortality files for years 1995-2007, as compiled through the Vital Statistics
Cooperative Program.
Infant Death Data
Matched birth and infant death certificates for Wisconsin residents at death, Office of Health Informatics,
Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Injury Emergency Department Data
Hospital Emergency Department data system, Office of Health Informatics, Division of Public Health,
Wisconsin Department of Health Services; prepared from data collected by the Department of Health Services
through September 30, 2003 and thereafter by the Wisconsin Hospital
Association Information Center.
Injury Hospitalization Data
Inpatient Hospitalization Discharge file, Office of Health Informatics,
Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health
Services; prepared from data collected by the Department of Health Services
through September 30, 2003 and thereafter by the Wisconsin Hospital
Association Information Center.
Mortality Data
Resident death certificates, Office of Health Informatics, Division
of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Population Data
U.S. Census Bureau (1989, 1990, 2000, and 2010). Office of Health
Informatics, Division of Public Health, Wisconsin Department of Health
Services (estimates for non-Census years other than 1989). Land area data, used to calculate population density, is from the
U.S. Census Bureau (2000).
Wisconsin Violent Death Reporting System
Death certificates, Office of Health Informatics, Division of Public Health,
Wisconsin Department of Health Services; coroner and medical examiner (CME) reports from
county and city CME offices; crime lab information from two Wisconsin crime labs; law enforcement
information from jurisdictional police agencies. Information from these sources is abstracted by staff
in the Office of Health Informatics to create a single file for each case of violent death that occurs in
Wisconsin. The Wisconsin system is part of the National Violent Death Reporting System.
Published information on Wisconsin births, deaths, population and other
health statistics is available from the Health Statistics pages of the
DHS Web site.
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Last Revised: December 06, 2011
