Database: Mortality by Cause of Death (The Netherlands)

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Primary purpose: Record data concerning the number of deaths in the territory [1].

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek.

Available type of information: number of deaths in the country population; main underlying cause of death (extensive list of 'three digit codes'); age; sex; year; leading causes of death; region.

Source of information: Declaration of the cause of death and Basic personal registration (BRP) are sent from regional hospitals to the statistical organization.

Data level: patient level.

Available date level: national level and regional level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 1996 onwards (national and regional level) and 1995 onwards (patient level).

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms [2].

Data access: partially publicly available. National level data access [3]. Regional level data access [4]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [5].

Contact information: Information [6].