Database: Mortality by cause of death (Spain)

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Primary purpose: Provides death statistics to enable monitoring and health measures to be taken.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Ministerio de Sanidad.

Type of information: Crude mortality rates; Age-adjusted mortality rates; Age-adjusted premature mortality rates; Sex, Cause of death (including cancer diagnosis); Year, and geographic region.

Source of information: Mortality register by cause of death, made by the National Statistics Institute (INE) form the Medical Certificate of Death/Death Statistical Bulletin (CMD/BED) and the Birth Statistical Bulletin (BEP).

Data level: patient level.

Available data level regional level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 1981 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: neoplasms (C00-D48); (C00-C14): Malignant tumors of lip, oral cavity and pharynx; (C15-C26): Malignant tumors of digestive organs; (C30-C39): Malignant tumors of respiratory and intrathoracic organs; (C40-C41): Malignant tumors of bone and articular cartilage; (C43-C44): Melanoma and other malignant tumors of the skin; (C45-C49): Malignant tumors of mesothelial tissues and soft tissues; (C50): Malignant tumors of breast; (C51-C58): Malignant tumors of female genital organs; (C60-C63): Malignant tumors of male genital organs; (C64-C68): Malignant tumors of urinary tract; (C69-C72): Malignant tumors of eye, brain and other parts of the central nervous system; (C73-C75): Malignant tumors of thyroid and other endocrine glands; (C76-C80): Malignant tumors of ill-defined, secondary and unspecified sites; (C81-C96): Primary malignant tumors of lymphatic tissue, hematopoietic organs, and related tissues; (C97): Primary malignant tumors of multiple independent sites; (D00-D09): Neoplasms in situ; (D10-D36): Benign tumors; (D37-D48): Tumors of uncertain or unknown behavior.

Data access: partially publicly available [3]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [4].

Contact information: Information [5].