Estimated Year of Birth

Maximum of 8 characters. Cannot be greater than the year of entry. The estimated year of birth provided by the medical examiner, coroner, or investigating officer should be entered. If the exact year of birth is known, it must be entered twice, e.g., 1948-1948. If the estimated year of birth is expressed in a range, the range, e.g., 1948-1953, should be entered. If entry type is unidentified-living, this field is expressed as approximate age.

Note: This field is restricted to a range of 20 years (e.g., 1933-1953) and is mandatory when the body parts status field contains the code ALL or 14 Rs. If the medical examiner, coroner, or investigating officer report contains an estimated year of birth range of more than 20 years and the code ALL or 14 Rs are entered into body parts status field, the earliest estimated year of birth followed by a hyphen and the earliest year of birth plus 20 years should be entered. The true range should be entered in the miscellaneous remarks field