Calculating the Cause of Death Association Indicator and the Contributing Cause of Death Association Indicator in Mortality Analysis v1

The protocol describes the input data and the method used to calculate the Cause of Death Association Indicators and the Contributing Cause of Death Association Indicators in the analysis of mortality. These indicators measure the strength and statistical significance of associations between causes of death jointly reported on death certificates. The protocol applies to the study of COVID-19-related deaths in Central Europe.