Database: Mortality by cause of death (Spain)

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Type of database: registry.

Primary purpose: Provides death statistics to enable monitoring and health measures to be taken.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Ministerio de Sanidad.

Type of information: longitudinal. Crude mortality rates; age-adjusted mortality rates; Age-adjusted premature mortality rates; sex, causes of death (including cancer diagnosis); year, and geographic region.

Source of information: Mortality register by cause of death, made by the National Statistics Institute (INE) form the Medical Certificate of Death/Death Statistical Bulletin (CMD/BED) and the Birth Statistical Bulletin (BEP). Click here to access Click here to access

Data level: patient level.

Available data level regional level.

Number of Records: unknown.

Date range: 1981 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-D48: All neoplasms. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available Click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content Click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.