Database: Mortality by Malignant Neoplasms (Portugal)

Primary purpose: Provide information regarding the national mortality and its social and demographic distribution.

Sponsor, manager or home institution: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE).

Type of information: Data dictionary - Mortality by malignant neoplasms Portugal.

Available type of information: Number of deaths; Data reference period; Year; Region of residence; Sex; Age group; Death cause; Type of cancer; Potential years of life lost; Rate of potential years of life lost (per 100 000 inhabitants); Mortality rate (per 100 000 inhabitants or in percentage); Standardized mortality rate (per 100 000 inhabitants).

The following indicators are also available and can be filtered by sex and region of residence:

Potential years of life lost by type of cancer [4].

Rate of potential years of life lost (per 100 000 inhabitants) by type of cancer [5].

Mortality rate (per 100 000 inhabitants or in percentage) by type of cancer [6].

Standardized mortality rate (per 100 000 inhabitants) by type of cancer [7].

Standardized mortality rate (per 100 000 inhabitants) by type of cancer regarding people 65 years of age and older [8].

Standardized mortality rate (per 100 000 inhabitants) by type of cancer regarding people younger than 65 years of age [9].

Source of information: Data collection through the notary offices and registered in the Integrated System for Civil Registration and Identification (SIRIC).

Data level: Patient level.

Available data level: Regional level.

Number of Records: Unknown.

Date range: Regional level (2002 onwards) and Patient level (1998 onwards).

Cancer Areas of Interest: Cancer areas of interest - Mortality by malignant neoplasms Portugal.

Data access: Partially publicly available [10]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [11].

Contact information: Information [12].