Database: Statistik Austria Cause of Death Registry (Austria)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: Provide open access information about cause of death. Click here to learn more.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Statistik Austria.

Type of information: cross-sectional. age, sex, marital status, place of residence, region, year, number of deaths, cause of death and comorbidities.

Data Dictionary: Statistik Austria Cause of Death Registry.

More information and data dictionaries on this and other datasets: click here to learn more. (To access the tables, click in the link -> type "STF - Statistik der Standesfälle einschließlich Todesursachenstatistik" in the search bar -> click to open the menus "Deceased - demographic characteristics" and "Deceased - causes of death").

Available type of information: cause of death, number of deaths for all malignant neoplasms (C00–C97, excl. C44) by sex, year, sex, comorbidities, marital status, and place of residence.

Source of information: Death data in Austria comes from registrar reports, including deaths of residents abroad since 2009. Results are classified by the person's last known residence.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of records: Approximately 85,000.

Date range: 1970 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. See the full list of cancer types here:

Statistik Austria Cause of Death Registry.

Data access: partially publicly available: click here to access (Click in STATcube - Guest Login and then Population -> Deaths -> Died). Data can be downloaded in the formats CSV, XLSX, TXD and ZIP. Data has access costs. Click here to learn more. Instructions to request data for restricted content: click here to learn more.

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