Database: Mortality by Cause of Death (The Netherlands)
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Primary purpose: Publish data concerning the number of deaths in the territory.
Sponsor, manager or home institution: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek.
Available type of information: number of deaths in the country population; main underlying cause of death (extensive list of 'three digit codes'); age; sex; year; Deceased; leading causes of death; region.
Source of information: Declaration of the cause of death and Basic personal registration (BRP) are sent from regional hospitals to the statistical organization.
Data level: patient level.
Available date level: national level and regional level.
Number of Records: unknown.
Date range: 1996 onwards (national and regional level) and 1995 onwards (patient level).
Cancer Areas of Interest: neoplasms (C00-D48) [2].
Data access: partially publicly available. National level data access [3]. Regional level data access [4]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [5].
Contact information: Information [6].
