Survey: National Health Interview Survey (INS) (Portugal)

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Primary purpose: Publish statistics on health status, health care and health determinants, and socio-demographic characteristics of the population to enable the study and improvement of these areas.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).

Available type of information: Regarding cancer prevention information, contains the percentage of the female resident population aged 50 to 69 years who reported having had mammography done in the 2 years prior to the interview and the female resident population aged 20 to 69 years who reported having had cervical cytology done in the 3 years prior to the interview, both filtered by education level and place of residence.

Type of information: Data Dictionary - INS Portugal. Click here to learn more.

Source of information: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date range: 2005 onwards. It occurs on a five-year basis.

Cancer areas of interest: C15-C26: Digestive system cancers; C50: Breast cancer and C51-C58: Female genitalia cancer. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. For mammography examination information click here to access; click here to access and click here to access; For cervical cytology information click here to access, click here to access and click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content [1].

Contact information: Information [2].