Valstybės duomenų agentūra
[Please pay a very close attention to the section "IMPORTANT NOTES"']
DATA SOURCE:
Data from Lithuania's centralised health register "eSveikata" (ESPBI IS): digital medical death certificates (Form E106), which the Centre of Registers daily provides to the State Data Governance Information System (SDG IS) of the State Data Agency.
SAMPLE, SCOPE, UPDATE:
Persons who have died of any cause and whose death is documented on a digital medical death certificate (Form E106) in the eSveikata system. Only the persons with a valid Lithuanian personal identification number (according to the structure and check digit) on the death certificate are covered here. Deaths occurring between 1 January 2018 and the seventh day before the table update date are presented. The data is updated weekly.
TABLE STRUCTURE:
The table is aggregated on three attributes: date of death, age group of the deceased, sex. Each row is therefore a unique combination of these three attributes. The last column (number of deaths) is never equal to 0, i.e. if on a specific date, in a specific age and sex group, no person died from a specific cause, this row is simply not included in the table.
CONTACTS:
State Data Governance team: vdv@stat.gov.lt.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
[1] These are not official statistics on the causes (and counts) of death produced by the Institute of Hygiene.
[2] In rare cases, data can be retrospectively updated (e.g. due to expert examination by the State Forensic Medicine Service).
[3] These data do not include perinatal deaths (medical certificates of perinatal death, Form E106-2-1).
[4] These data will differ from the more accurate death records kept by the Institute of Hygiene: The Institute of Hygiene additionally collects non-digital (i.e., paper) medical death certificates (they could make up around 1% of total deaths); however, this table includes only digital medical death certificates.
[5] These data will slightly differ from the official mortality statistics compiled by the State Data Agency, where only the resident population is included and the actual date of death is not used (the date on which the death was reported is used); however, in this table, the scope may cover deaths of non-Lithuanian citizens or persons who are not permanent residents of Lithuania who died in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania, and the actual date of death is used.
[6] The data also exclude the deaths of persons who did not have a valid Lithuanian personal identification number on their medical death certificate.
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