Database: Health Statistics Database for Mortality Data (Latvia)

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Primary purpose: Provide information about mortality incidence and epidemiology.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Slimību Profilakses un Kontroles Centrs (SPKC); Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (CDPC).

Type of information: Provides information about mortality, treatable and preventable mortality, death causes, main causes of death, years of potential life lost, among others.

Available type of information: causes of death by month, age group, COVID-19 vaccination status; number of deaths, cause of infant and child mortality by age group; potential years of life lost by region, sex; as well as other information.

Source of information: Data collected from death certificates and other populational databases.

Data level: aggregated level.

Available data level: Administrative territory, regional level.

Number of records: Not applicable.

Date range: varies depending on the variable.

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available: click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content: click here to learn more.

Contact information: Click here to learn more.