Database: Andmebaas Cause of Death (Estonia)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Health Statistics and Health Research Database; The National Institute for Health Development.

Primary purpose: The register collects and processes data on causes of death for various purposes, including the development of social policy, assessment of population health, and planning of preventive activities in the social and health sectors.

Type of information: Data Dictionary: Andmebaas Cause of Death. Personal data of the deceased (sex, county, month, age group, year and municipality); Causes and circumstances of death; Socio-demographic data of the deceased (education, last place of residence, citizenship, etc.); Details of the basic documents and their authors [1].

Available type of information: number of deaths, causes of death, age, sex, place of residence, month, year [2].

Source of Information: The socio-demographic data of the deceased is provided by the Estonian population register, submitted by the doctors and coroners who have established the death.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date Range: 1989 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: Cancer Areas of Interest: Andmebaas Cause of Death.

Data access: partially publicly available [3], to access go to Population > Deaths. Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].

Contact information: Information [5].