Database: The Cause of Death Register (DAR) (Denmark)

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Primary purpose: Make the national number of deaths by causes available to research and statistics purpose.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: The Danish Health Data Agency.

Type of information: Data dictionary has not been found.

Available type of information: number of deaths (per 100,000 citizens, per 100,000 citizens - age-standardized -, Number of deaths per 100,000 citizens - sex and age-standardised -) filtered by place of residence, year, and type of cancer.

Source of information: Death certificates.

Data level: regional level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 1970 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: malignant neoplasms (C00-C97).

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

Contact information: Information [5].