Database: Mortality by Cause of Death (The Netherlands)

Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: Record data concerning the number of deaths in the territory. Click here to learn more.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek.

Type of information: cross-sectional. sex, year, causes of death, place of residence, region.

Data dictionary - Mortality by Cause of Death (The Netherlands)

Available type of information: number of deaths in the country population; main underlying cause of death; age; sex; year; leading causes of death; region. Click here to learn more.

Source of information: The declaration of the cause of death is made by the doctor who examined the deceased. Click here to learn more.

Data level: patient level. Click here to learn more.

Available data level: regional level and national level. Click here to learn more.

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. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Regional level data access: Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the following formats: CSV, JSON, HTML. Data has access costs. Instructions to request data for restricted content: Click here to learn more.

Contact information: Click here to learn more.