Database: Mortality by Malignant Neoplasms (Portugal)
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Primary purpose: Provide information regarding the national mortality and its social and demographic distribution.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).
Type of information: Data Dictionary - Mortality by malignant neoplasms Portugal.
Available type of information: number of deaths; Data reference period; year; place of residence; sex; age group; causes of death; diagnosis; potential years of life lost; Rate of potential years of life lost (per 100 000 inhabitants); Mortality rate (per 100 000 inhabitants or in percentage); Standardized mortality rate (per 100 000 inhabitants).
The following indicators are also available and can be filtered by sex and region of residence:
- Potential years of life lost by type of cancer [4].
- Rate of potential years of life lost (per 100 000 inhabitants) by type of cancer [5].
- Mortality rate (per 100 000 inhabitants or in percentage) by type of cancer [6].
- Standardized mortality rate (per 100 000 inhabitants) by type of cancer [7].
- Standardized mortality rate (per 100 000 inhabitants) by type of cancer regarding people 65 years of age and older [8].
- Standardized mortality rate (per 100 000 inhabitants) by type of cancer regarding people younger than 65 years of age [9].
Source of information: Data collection through the notary offices and registered in the Integrated System for Civil Registration and Identification (SIRIC).
Data level: patient level.
Available data level: regional level.
Number of records: unknown.
Date range: Regional level (2002 onwards) and Patient level (1998 onwards).
Cancer areas of interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. Click here to learn more.
Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.
Contact information: Click here to access.
