Database: Health Statistics Database for Mortality Data (Latvia)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: Provide information about mortality incidence and epidemiology.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Slimību Profilakses un Kontroles Centrs (SPKC); Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (CDPC).

Type of information: longitudinal. Data dictionary has not been found. Provides information about mortality, treatable and preventable mortality, causes of death, main causes of death, year, potential years of life lost, among others.

Available type of information: causes of death by month, age group, COVID-19 vaccination status; number of deaths, cause of infant and child mortality by age group; potential years of life lost by region, sex; year, as well as other information. Click here to learn more.

Source of information: Data collected from death certificates and other populational databases.

Data level: aggregated level.

Available data level: Administrative territory, regional level and national level.

Number of records: Not applicable.

Date range: varies depending on the variable.

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 formats XLSX; CSV; PX; JSON; XML; HTM and TXT. Data requires a grant proposal to be accessed. Instructions to request data for restricted content: click here to learn more.

Contact information: Click here to learn more.