Database: I.Stat - Smoking Habits (Italy)

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Type of Database: registry.

Primary purpose: Provide access to data collection results from all statistical themes, including health and healthcare.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: National Institute of Statistics (Istat).

Type of information: longitudinal. age, sex, place of residence, education, employment status, income, alcohol consumption, smoking habit, self-perceived health, self-reported prevalence of chronic diseases, medication use, quality of life. Surveys used to collect data. Click here to learn more. To access the source, questionnaires used to generate the variables Click here to access and Click here to access.

Available type of information: smoking habit (smoker, never smoker, former-smoker), number of cigarettes per day, the average number of cigarettes, all organized per age, educational level, occupation, and region.

Source of information: Survey carried out on a sample of about 25,000 families distributed in about 800 Italian municipalities of different demographic sizes.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of Records: 25,000 families every year.

Date Range: 1993 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. Click here to learn more. Full list of cancer types:

Cancer Areas of Interest: I.Stat - Smoking Habits.

Data access: partially publicly available Click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats PDF.

Contact information: Information Click here to access.