Database: Mortality by cause of death (Luxembourg)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: Register the occurrence and cause of mortality in Luxembourg territory for residents and non-residents. Click here to learn more.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Directorate of Health.

Type of information: cross-sectional. sex; place of residence; marital status; hospital location; causes of death; region; employment status; year; number of deaths. Data Dictionary - Mortality by cause of death Luxembourg.

Available type of information: number of deaths; causes of death; sex, Chapter (residents and non-residents); Distribution of deaths; Crude death rate per 100,000 population; Evolution of the number of deaths; Evolution of the crude mortality rate per 100,000 inhabitants; Block or group; age group; Number of people residing abroad who died in Luxembourg; Country of residence; Standardized death rate per 100,000 population in European countries; year.

Source of information: Death certificates.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of records: Around 4000 deaths per year (4402 deaths in 2021).

Date range: 1967 onwards.

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

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. The number of deaths by type of tumor and year is available in the table "Death by cause" in the topic "Health" of the "Social conditions" section, click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the formats PDF; CSV and XLSX. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.