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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].
