Database: Death registry (CepiDC) (France)

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Primary purpose: A complete registry of medical causes of death in France.

Sponsor, manager, or home institution: Center for Epidemiology on the Medical Causes of Death (CépiDC), DREES treatments.

Type of information: Data Dictionary: Death registry (CepiDC). Click here to learn more.

Available type of information: sex, age, causes of death, and year. Click here to learn more

Source of information: Death certificates issued in the country.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date range: 1968 onwards. Click here to learn more

Cancer areas of interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Querying data on medical causes of death: Click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content: Click here to access.

Contact information: Information. Click here to learn more.