Database: OECD Health Statistics (European Union)
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Type of Database: registry
Primary purpose: Provides health data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Type of information: longitudinal. Data Dictionary: OECD Health Statistics. Click here to learn more.
Source of Information: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and World Health Organisation Mortality Database.
Data level: national level.
Number of Records: unknown.
Date range: 1960-2021.
Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. Full list of cancer types: OECD Health Statistics. Click here to learn more.
Data access: publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLS and CVS.
(To access Cancer Morbidity data, click the link, then click in the section "Cancer" from the "Health Status" list);
(To access Cancer Mortality data, click the link, then click in the section "Causes of mortality" from the "Health Status" list -> in the table, select the type of neoplasm in the section "variable").
Contact information: Click here to access.
