Database: Statistik Austria Cause of Death Registry (Austria)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Statistik Austria.

Primary purpose: Provide open access information about cause of death.

Type of information: Data Dictionary: Statistik Austria Cause of Death Registry. More information and data dictionaries on this and other datasets [2]. (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: number of deaths for all malignant neoplasms (C00–C97, excl. C44) by sex, year, type of cancer, comorbidities, 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: national level and regional level.

Number of Records: Approximately 85,000.

Date Range: 1970 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: Statistik Austria Cause of Death Registry

Data access: Data is partially publicly available [3]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].

Contact information: Information [5].