Database: I.Stat - Smoking Habits (Italy)

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Type of Database: registry, survey.

Primary purpose: Provide access to data collection results from all statistical themes, including health and healthcare.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: National Institute of Statistics (Istat).

Type of information: longitudinal. age, sex, place of residence, education, employment status, income, alcohol consumption, smoking habit, self-perceived health, self-reported prevalence of chronic diseases, medication use, quality of life. Surveys used to collect data click here to learn more.

Available type of information: smoking habit (smoker, never smoker, former-smoker), number of cigarettes per day, the average number of cigarettes, all organized per age, educational level, employment status, and region.

Source of information: Survey carried out on a sample of about 25,000 families distributed in about 800 Italian municipalities of different demographic sizes.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of Records: 25,000 families every year.

Date Range: 1993 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: C00-C97: All cancer types. Click here to learn more.

Data access: partially publicly available. Click here to access. Data can be downloaded in the PDF format. Instructions to request data for restricted content click here to access.

Contact information: Click here to access.