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For any question on data and metadata, please contact: Eurostat user support |
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1.1. Contact organisation | Statistics Austria |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Directorate Social Statistics |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Statistics Austria Directorate Social Statistics Guglgasse 13 1110 Wien |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 23/11/2023 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 25/10/2023 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 25/10/2023 |
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3.1. Data description | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data on causes of death (COD) provide information on mortality patterns and form a major element of public health information. COD data refer to the underlying cause which - according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) - is "the disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death, or the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury". Causes of death are classified by the 86 causes of the "European shortlist" of causes of death. This shortlist is based on the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD). |
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3.2. Classification system | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eurostat's CoD statistics build on standards set out by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD). The regional breakdown is based on the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS 2). Classification and updates applied by years
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3.3. Coverage - sector | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Public Health |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Concepts and definitions are described in the Commission regulation (EU) No 328/2011 in articles 2 and 3. |
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3.4.1. National definition used for usual residency | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The place of usual residence is approximated by the place of main registered main residence. In Austria only people registered with a main residence for 3 months or more are collected; The Austrian definition is based on the Recommendations on Statistics of International Migration from the United Nations (Statistical Papers No. 58, Rev. 1. 1998) |
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The national definition used for stillbirths is the WHO-definition: 500 grams or more and no signs of life. The characteristics collected are: gestational age, weight, crown-heel lenght. |
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The statistical units are the deceased persons and the stillborns, respectively. |
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3.6. Statistical population | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residents, non-residents and stillbirths. |
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Neonatals of non-resident mothers are not considered as residents. |
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Data of non-residents are submitted to ESTAT. They are also stored in the national database but not published. |
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Residents dying abroad are published, the cause of death is coded with R99. |
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3.7. Reference area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Austrian territory |
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Time series available from 1994 onwards. |
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Not applicable. |
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The unit is an absolute number. |
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2022 |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
Countries submitted data to Eurostat on the basis of a gentleman's agreement established in the framework Eurostat's Working Group on "Public Health Statistics" until data with reference year 2010. The first data submitted according to the Regulation (EU) No 328/2011 is data with reference year 2011. |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
COD-data are shared with Eurostat, WHO, National Health Institutions, Scientific Resarchs Institutes, Media and the broad public. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
The Law on Personal Data Protection provides the legal basis for confidentiality of data in the Cause of Death Registry. |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
All age groups showing a total mortality of less than 4 cases are considered as confidential. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
Not applicable. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
Not applicable. |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
At the moment the data is fully plausible, it will be published immediately in a press release and on our homepage: https://www.statistik.at/medien/pressemitteilungen
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Annual. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
News releases on-line: https://www.statistik.at/medien/veroeffentlichungskalender |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Publications online: https://www.statistik.at/en/statistics/population-and-society/population/deaths/causes-of-death
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Please consult free data on-line (https://www.statistik.at/en/databases/statcube-statistical-database). |
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10.3.1. Data tables - consultations | |||
Please consult free data on-line (https://statcube.at/statistik.at/ext/statcube/jsf/terms.xhtml?r=%2Fstatistik.at%2Fext%2Fstatcube%2Fopendatabase?id%3Ddegestorbene_ext) or refer to contact details. |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
Please consult free data on-line (https://statcube.at/statistik.at/ext/statcube/jsf/terms.xhtml?r=%2Fstatistik.at%2Fext%2Fstatcube%2Fopendatabase?id%3Ddegestorbene_ext) or refer to contact details. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Please consult free data on-line (https://www.statistik.at/en/databases/statcube-statistical-database) or refer to contact details. |
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10.5.1. Metadata - consultations | |||
Please consult free data on-line (https://statcube.at/statistik.at/ext/statcube/jsf/terms.xhtml?r=%2Fstatistik.at%2Fext%2Fstatcube%2Fopendatabase?id%3Ddegestorbene_ext) or refer to contact details. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Documents for COD are available in CIRCABC, Causes of Death section. |
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10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate | |||
Please consult free data on-line (https://statcube.at/statistik.at/ext/statcube/jsf/terms.xhtml?r=%2Fstatistik.at%2Fext%2Fstatcube%2Fopendatabase?id%3Ddegestorbene_ext) or refer to contact details. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
The Austrian Cause of Death Registry has fully implemented the IRIS system, with its associated rules and guidelines for selection of underlying cause of death, for routine coding. If the medical data is incomplete additional information is requested from the institution where the certificate was issued. The quality management is documented in the handbook of quality (only in german, summary in english). Please look under "Dokumentationen": https://www.statistik.at/statistiken/bevoelkerung-und-soziales/bevoelkerung/gestorbene/todesursachen
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
The causes of death data are based on a regulation, which defines scope, definitions of variables and characteristics of the data. The Austrian Cause of Death Registry has fully implemented the IRIS system, with its associated rules and guidelines for selection of underlying cause of death, for routine coding. If the medical data is incomplete additional information is requested from the institution where the certificate was issued.
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
Not available. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
The Austrian Cause of Death Registry is needed for the following purposes: 1. Monitoring causes of death over time
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
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12.3. Completeness | |||
All compulsory variables are available. |
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12.3.1. Data completeness - rate | |||
1. For mandatory variables: 100% 2. For voluntary variables:- 3. For additional variables:
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
High accuracy for death occurred in Austria, legal obligation to provide a death certificate for every death that occurred in Austria. The statistic has a high quality, because the most important information comes from the civil registries which have high accuracy and reliability due to the nature of their documentation system. The quality of mortality statistics thus depends directly on the quality of the information given by the doctors. This depends on the amount of the medical information that the certifying doctor has. In most cases clinical information is used to describe death. In less than 10% of the cases an autopsy is done.
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Not applicable. |
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13.3.1. Coverage error | |||
Not applicable. Data collection is from administrative sources. |
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13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate | |||
Not applicable. Data collection is from administrative sources. |
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13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion | |||
Not applicable. Data collection is from administrative sources. |
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13.3.2. Measurement error | |||
Not applicable. Data collection is from administrative sources. |
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13.3.3. Non response error | |||
Not applicable. Data collection is from administrative sources. |
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13.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate | |||
Not applicable. Data collection is from administrative sources. |
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13.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate | |||
Not applicable. Data collection is from administrative sources. |
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13.3.4. Processing error | |||
Not applicable. Data collection is from administrative sources. |
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13.3.5. Model assumption error | |||
Not applicable. |
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14.1. Timeliness | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
From data collection with reference year 2011 onwards, Eurostat asks for the submission of final data for the year N at N+24 months. |
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14.1.1. Time lag - first result | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not applicable. |
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Not applicable. |
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14.2. Punctuality | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The data for the reference year 2020 have been delivered in September 2022. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
The data are comparable for all territorial regions in the country. The process of collecting, coding and transmission of the data is the same for all regions. |
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15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient | |||
Not applicable. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
Coding procedures changed over time in Austria:
The impact of formal and technical changes in Cause of Death statistics cannot be measured.
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15.2.1. Length of comparable time series | |||
Considering evolution of ICD versions in use the comparable time series start at 2002 up to now (ICD 10 Version 2013). For the European short list the comparable time series start at 1970 up to now.
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
The Causes of death data are compared with the data on the population. Comparisons between hospital discharge records and cause of death statistics are not possible due to the fact that matching these data is not allowed by law.
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15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | |||
Not applicable, only annual data are available. |
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15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts | |||
Not applicable. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
Since 2002, the Central Register of supplies (ZMR) quarterly stock figures and changing masses, which are widely adopted in an anonymous population register. Since then inconsistencies are reported as correction of population data. |
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The cost and burden of the data collection is reduced by using validation and dissemination IT tools. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
Not applicable. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
There is no systematic revision of previous year data. |
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17.2.1. Data revision - average size | |||
Not applicable. |
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In 2010, the Austrian government decided to create a central civil registry (Zentrales Personenstandsregister - ZPR) in order to simplify related administrative procedures. This registry started operations in November 2014. The use of the ZPR is compulsory for civil registration offices nationwide. With the introduction of the ZPR, the opportunity was taken to envisage ways of also transmitting electronic information on the causes of death as provided by hospitals or death-certifying physicians. According to the new civil registration law, with the implementation of the ZPR hospitals and death-certifying physicians outside hospitals are obliged to send death certificates electronically (not only demographic information, but also the medical part) unless they lack the necessary technical equipment. Death-certifying physicians outside hospitals also have to transmit data electronically unless they lack the necessary technical equipment. |
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Data are collected continously since the implementation of the ZPR. |
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In Austria, unicausal cause-of-death statistics is done, i.e. the underlying cause of death is selected from the data on the death certificate and only this is coded. |
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18.3.1. Certification | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Table on certification (Percentage)
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For stillbirths there is a different death certificate. There is no certificate for neonatal deaths; for neonatal deaths the data of the certificate of birth and the data of the certificate of death are merged. |
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Since 2009 all deaths of Austrian residents outside Austria are included in the publications. These cases are coded with ICD-Code R99. Since the start of the ZPR (Zentrales Personenstandsregister) the civil registration system is centralized and the personal information of a dead person will be sent electronically. As the ZPR is based on the ZMR (Zentrales Melderegister) the information in both systems will adjust continously. |
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Description of coding procedure (central level, distributed among other bodies, etc.): central level Description of the procedures to detect errors (i.e.errors such as potential inconsistency in the death certificate or error due to mistake when filling the deaths certificates): contacting the doctor when inconsistencies are seen during the coding process Description of the measures taken in order to solve detected errors: reject within the automatic coding system, then contacting the doctor Coding performed by a certifier: no, doctors have to fill in the text Estimation of the percentage of autopsy from which information is available for coding at the stage of arrival of the certificate: nine out of death certificates have all informations ready at first arrival, the rest is delivered ongoing up to the finalisation of the yearly data Description of double coding exercises and rate of codification errors for underlying cause of death: there is no double coding performed since the automated coding system is in place; all corona cases are reviewed again by the head coder after coding.
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Unspecified CoD codes for the underlying cause (% of the Total)
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In 2014 electronic registration started and more non-resident certificates came in, nevertheless a high percentage of unknown recidencies are still there.
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Since 2009 all deaths of Austrian residents outside Austria are included in the publications. These cases are coded with ICD-Code R99. Since the start of the ZPR (Zentrales Personenstandsregister) the civil registration system is centralized and the personal information of a dead person will be sent electronically. As the ZPR is based on the ZMR (Zentrales Melderegister) the information in both systems will adjust continously. |
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ICD-Codes are aggregated according to the Eurostat-short-list of causes of death groups. |
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On data entry level several plausibility tests on each variable are performed, mainly on the ICD-Codes. The ICD-Codes are tested according to the ICD-Version used, the sex and age of the deceased. Additionall tests are done on the ICD-Codes of external causes. If errors occur, the cases are checked by the head coder and, if necessary, changed by the project management. |
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