Database: KSH Cause of Death Registry (Hungary)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: To provide statistical accounting of all deaths in Hungary and deaths abroad of persons with a Hungarian address.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Központi Statisztikai Hivatal.

Type of information: longitudinal. Data dictionary was not found. Includes date of birth and death, place of death, marital status, citizenship, address, education, economic activity, occupation, employment relationship, data on the living spouse in the case of a deceased spouse (and the number of children in the case of deceased women) and causes of death (declarant of death, series of diseases leading to death and the date of their onset, circumstances of unnatural death). Click here to learn more.

Available type of information: age; sex; marital status; place of residence; year; causes of death; education.

Data Dictionary: KSH Cause of Death Registry.

Source of Information: Direct data collection by the KSH (Hungarian Central Statistical Office) and various questionnaires, such as the "Death sheet," "Death Examination Certificate," "Notification on the modification of the Postmortem Certificate," "Perinatal post mortem certificate," and "Perinatal death (pathological) notice." In the case of death of Hungarian citizens abroad, the available data must be provided by the authority conducting the domestic civil registration.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 2015 onwards.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more under "Population and vital events" > "Death", then choose the dataset, and filter by cause of death. Full list of cancer types:

Cancer Areas of Interest: KSH Cause of Death Registry.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access under "Population and vital events" > "Death". Data can be downloaded in the formats XLS; CSV and PDF. Data has access costs. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.

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