UPDB - Vital Records

The Office of Vital Records and Statistics, Utah Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) provides a number of data sets to the Utah Population Database (UPDB). Many of these are updated annually.

Utah Birth Certificates

Information from Utah birth certificates is available for two sets of data: 1915 to 1921 and 1930s to the present.

Birth Certificate - Available Fields

Utah Fetal Death Certificates

A Fetal death record is a combination of selected information from a Birth and Death Certificate.

Utah Death Certificates

Information from Utah death certificates is available from 1904 to the present.

• 1904 - 1956: Underlying, associated and contributing causes of death have been coded by UPDB staff to ICD Revision 10, using the 2000 Medical Data System and supplemented by hand coding. There may be multiple causes of death as recorded on the death certificate.
• 1957 - 1995: The Utah Department of Health provided only the underlying cause of death. However, they began adding a secondary cause of death in 1980 for specific areas of interest, such as hypertension, diabetes, neoplasm, etc.
• 1996 - Present: The Utah Department of Health changed their coding system and now provides multiple (underlying, associated and contributing) causes of death.
• International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes are alphanumeric designations given to every diagnosis and cause of death. This coding system has changed over time and the different versions are held in UPDB as follows:

• Industry and occupation of the deceased are classified using 1980 and 1990 census codes.

Death Certificate Available Fields

Utah Marriage and Divorce Records

• UPDB received marriage and divorce information including marriage dates and divorce dates from 1978 to 2010.
• DHHS stopped collecting marriage and divorce information statewide after 2010.