Database: AIM-IMA Échantillon Permantent(e) Steekproef (EPS) (Belgium)

Sponsor, manager or home institution: AIM-IMA.

Primary purpose: To provide a longitudinal compilation of administrative health insurance data for federal and regional partners in Belgium.

Type of information: In the EPS database are all the variables available in the Population, Healthcare, Pharmanet and Hospitalizations databases [1].

Source of Information: Health insurance fund records.

Data level: Patient level.

Number of Records: 2.5% of the Belgian population (2019: approximately 285,000) and an additional sample of 2.5% of the Belgian population aged 65 and over (2019: approximately 56,000).

Date Range: 2002 onwards.

Cancer Areas of Interest: Unknown.

Data access: Partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].

Contact information: Information [4].