Database: Cancer Prevention Statistics (Lithuania)

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Type of database: administrative/claims data; registry; survey.

Primary purpose: Provide reliable information about health and prevention services in Lithuania. Click here to learn more.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: State Data Agency of Lithuania.

Type of information: cross-sectional. screening, check-up examinations. Data Dictionary: Database: Cancer Prevention Statistics.

Available type of information: Number of breast and cervical cancer screenings; year; Proportion of women who had mammography test; Period of time since examination; age; Proportion of the population who underwent a colonoscopy; Income; employment status; educational level; Region of residence; Proportion of women who had a cervical smear test. Click here to learn more in "Population and social statistics" > "Health" > "Prevention".

Source of information: Health Interview Survey, Population Register of State Enterprise Centre of Registers and the State Social Insurance Fund Board under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour (SODRA).

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level.

Number of records: Comprises all permanent residents of the Republic of Lithuania, aged 15 years or older, living in private households. In 2019, 70.3% of this population group answered the survey.

Date range: 2005 onwards (cancer screenings, population smoking habits) and 2014 onwards (mammography and cervical smear tests, cigarette smoking habit, and the number of cigarettes smoked daily).

Cancer areas of interest: C15-C26: Digestive system cancers; C50: Breast cancer; C51-C58: Female genitalia cancer. Click here to learn more in "Population and social statistics" > "Health" > "Prevention".

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access in "Population and social statistics" > "Health" > "Prevention". Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.