Database: Sotkanet Indicator Bank (Finland)

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Type of database: administrative/claims data; registry; survey.

Primary purpose: Offer information about key population welfare and health data.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare.

Type of information: longitudinal. number of deaths, region, diagnosis, causes of death, age, year, cancer survival, income, screening, place of residence. Click here to learn more.

Source of Information: Cancer statistics (Finnish Cancer Registry), National Health Index (Kela and THL) and Morbidity index (THL). The source for the individual indicator can be found by clicking on "info ind xxxx", next to the name of each indicator.

Data level: regional level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date range: 1990 onwards.

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

Data access: publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats XLS and CSV.

Contact information: Click here to access.