Database: Statistics Finland - Cause of Death (Finland)

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Primary purpose: Provide publicly available information on causes of death.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Statistics Finland; Ministry of Finance.

Type of information: Data Dictionary: Causes of death - research data. More information [1].

Available type of information: number of deaths, causes of death, sex, age, place of residence, year.

Source of Information: Death certificates and data from the Population Information System.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date Range: 1969 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest (ICD-10): neoplasms (C00-D48).

Data access: partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].

Contact information: Information [4].