Survey: National Health Interview Survey (INS) (Portugal)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: Publish statistics on health status, health care and health determinants, and socio-demographic characteristics of the population to enable the study and improvement of these areas.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).

Type of information: longitudinal. Data Dictionary - INS Portugal. Click here to learn more.

Available type of information: Regarding cancer prevention information, contains the percentage of the female resident population aged 50 to 69 years who reported having had mammography done in the 2 years prior to the interview and the female resident population aged 20 to 69 years who reported having had cervical cytology done in the 3 years prior to the interview, both filtered by education level and place of residence.

Source of information: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of records: unknown.

Date range: 2005 onwards. It occurs on a five-year basis.

Cancer areas of interest: C15-C26: Digestive system cancers; C50: Breast cancer and C51-C58: Female genitalia cancer. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. For mammography examination information click here to access; click here to access and click here to access; For cervical cytology information click here to access, click here to access and click here to access. For colonoscopy information click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.