Database: Socialstyrelsen Cause of Death Registry (Sweden): Difference between revisions

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Socialstyrelsen.

Primary purpose: To describe the causes of death and track mortality trends in Sweden.

Type of information: Data Dictionary: Socialstyrelsen Cause of Death Registry. Full list of variables [1].

Available type of information: number of deaths; Deaths rates and deaths by 100,000 people; diagnosis; age; sex and region.

Source of Information: The death certificates are sent by doctors to the Tax Agency or the Police, and then are sent to the Socialstyrelsen.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of Records: Around 90,000 people per year.

Date Range: 1969 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: neoplasms (C00-D48).

Data access: partially publicly available. Data from 1969 to 1996 information [2] and data from 1997 onwards information [3]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].

Contact information: Information [5].

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 '''Type of information:''' [[Data Dictionary: Socialstyrelsen Cause of Death Registry]]. Full list of variables [https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/globalassets/sharepoint-dokument/dokument-webb/statistik/register-dodsorsaksregistret-variabelforteckning.xls].
-'''Available type of information:''' Number of deaths; Deaths rates and deaths by 100,000 people; Diagnosis; [[availableVariable::age]]; [[availableVariable::sex]] and [[availableVariable::region]].
+'''Available type of information:''' [[availableVariable::number of deaths]]; Deaths rates and deaths by 100,000 people; [[availableVariable::diagnosis]]; [[availableVariable::age]]; [[availableVariable::sex]] and [[availableVariable::region]].
 '''Source of Information:''' The death certificates are sent by doctors to the Tax Agency or the Police, and then are sent to the Socialstyrelsen.