Survey: National Health Interview Survey (INS) (Portugal)
Primary purpose: Publish statistics on health status, health care and health determinants, and socio-demographic characteristics of the population to enable the study and improvement of these areas.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).
Available type of information: Regarding cancer prevention information, contains the percentage of the female resident population aged 50 to 69 years who reported having had mammography done in the 2 years prior to the interview and the female resident population aged 20 to 69 years who reported having had cervical cytology done in the 3 years prior to the interview, both filtered by education level and region of residence.
Type of information: Data Dictionary - INS Portugal.
Source of information: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).
Data level: Patient level.
Available data level: National level.
Number of Records: Unknown.
Date range: 2005 onwards. It occurs on a five-year basis.
Cancer Areas of Interest: Breast and cervix neoplasms.
Data access: Partially publicly available. Mammography examination information [2], [3], [4]; Cervical cytology information [5], [6], [7]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [8].
Contact information: Information [9].
