Database: Socialstyrelsen Cause of Death Registry (Sweden)

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Type of database: registry.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Socialstyrelsen.

Primary purpose: To describe the causes of death and track mortality trends in Sweden.

Type of information: cross-sectional. age, sex, marital status, place of residence, alcohol consumption, self-reported prevalence of chronic diseases, diagnosis, medical procedures, check-up examinations, number of deaths, causes of death, year.

Data Dictionary: Socialstyrelsen Cause of Death Registry.

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Available type of information: number of deaths; Deaths rates and deaths by 100,000 people; diagnosis; age; sex and region.

Source of information: The death certificates are sent by doctors to the Tax Agency or the Police, and then are sent to the Socialstyrelsen.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: regional level and national level.

Number of records: Around 90,000 people per year.

Date range: 1969 onwards.

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

Data access: partially publicly available. Data from 1969 to 1996 information: click here to access; Data from 1997 onwards information: click here to access. Instructions to request data for restricted content: click here to learn more. Data can be downloaded in the formats CSV, XLSX. Data has access costs.

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