Database: DATACube Deaths Registry (Slovakia)

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Štatistický úrad SR.

Primary purpose: The collection and processing of data for the purposes of demographic statistics in accordance with the standards of the European statistical system.

Type of information: Date of death; Date of birth; Birth number of the deceased; Gender of the deceased; Educational attainment; Employment; State, district, and municipality of death; Place of death; Place of birth; Nationality; Permanent residence; Condition; Life expectancy in hours (in case of death within 24 hours); Where the death occurred; Birth weight; Was the father of the child the husband of the mother?; Cause of death according to clinical findings and 4-digit mark (code); Final diagnosis according to the performed autopsy and 4-digit mark (code) [1].

Available type of information: The most frequent causes of death of population, medical procedures, Autopsies and share of autopsies by causes of death; Causes of death; year; month; age; Mean age; Age-group; sex; Area; region, District and place of residence [2].

Source of Information: Statistical survey through the statistical report.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date Range: 1993 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: neoplasms (C00-D48).

Data access: partially publicly available. Publicly available data can be found [3] at Population > Status and Movement of the Population > Demographic Process > Death. Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].

Contact information: Information [5].