Database: Mortality by Cause of Death (The Netherlands)
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Primary purpose: Record data concerning the number of deaths in the territory [1].
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek.
Type of information: Data dictionary - Mortality by Cause of Death (The Netherlands) [2].
Available type of information: number of deaths in the country population; main underlying cause of death; age; sex; year; leading causes of death; region [3].
Source of information: The declaration of the cause of death is made by the doctor who examined the deceased [4].
Data level: patient level [5].
Available data level: regional level [6] [7].
Number of Records: unknown.
Date range: 1996 onwards (national and regional level) and 1995 onwards (patient level).
Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms [8][9].
Data access: partially publicly available. Regional level data access [10]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [11].
Contact information: Information [12].
