Database: The Cause of Death Register (DAR) (Denmark)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: Make the national number of deaths by causes available to research and statistics purpose. Click here to learn more.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Danish Health Data Agency.

Type of information: longitudinal. number of deaths per 100,000 citizens; Number of deaths, age-standardised rate per 100,000 citizens; Number of deaths sex- and age-standardized rate per 100,000 citizens; year; region; Municipality; Diagnosis; Autopsy; Place of death; Month of death. Click here to learn more.

Available type of information: number of deaths (per 100,000 citizens, per 100,000 citizens - age-standardized -, Number of deaths per 100,000 citizens - sex and age-standardised -) filtered by place of residence, year, and diagnosis.

Source of information: Death certificates.

Data level: regional level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 1970 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the PDF format. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.

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