1. Causes of Death data collection 2011, 1st data collection following regulation no. 328/2011
Anke Weber,
Marie Clerc

2. Overview Data collection – reference year 2011 Validation
Dissemination tables
Future satellite tables
Next round: 2012 data
EDIT validation tool for MS
Conclusions

3. Regulation 328/2011
implementing regulation on causes of death adopted April 2011
2011 data collection on COD was first under regulation
New variables have been collected, namely:
Number of stillbirths;
Country/region of occurrence;
Country/region of residence;
Age of mother (on a voluntary basis for stillbirths and neonatal deaths);
Parity (on a voluntary basis for stillbirths and neonatal deaths);
More detailed age breakdown (disaggregation of age below 7 days and more detailed breakdowns for old age groups 85-89, 90-94, 95-99, and 105+)

4. Data transmission
33 countries sent data on COD for 2011: 28 EU MS + NO, LI, CH, RS and TR
23 countries sent data before the deadline (31/12/2013)
For most countries several transmissions needed before complying with format requirements (….some countries up to 6 transmissions)
Slightly more micro data than aggregate data
Reminder: use eDamis for data submissions
13 Countries reported aggregated data for the general mortality data file and 15 for stillbirths and neonatal mortality data. Hence, 19 Countries reported micro data for the general mortality data file and 17 for stillbirths and neonatal mortality data

5. Validation Problems encountered:
Wrong format (for example data in separate excel documents)
ICD codes issues (for example inconsistencies with age or sex, unknown code, wrong format for example for 3 digits code)
Duplicate (i.e. duplicated row for aggregated data or duplicated ID for micro data)
Inconsistencies between GEN and SBN files
Some countries did not report deaths for non- residents in the first data transmission.

6. Dissemination - Eurobase
Absolute numbers, per inhabitants and standardized death rates
1. Deaths of residents in- or outside their home country
2. Deaths occurring in the country (residents or non-residents)
Dissemination - Eurobase
Data from all 28 MS needed!
Data on Stillbirths and Day0, Day1-6, Day7-27 by age of mother – no parity due to confidentiality
Infant mortality by occurrence or residence
19 MS sent data by age of mother / 22 MS sent data by stillbirth group
data

7. New tables for specific public health areas Publication 1Q 2015:
Satellite tables
New tables for specific public health areas
Publication 1Q 2015:
Amenable and preventable deaths of residents
Infant deaths of residents by cause
Deaths related to transport accidents occurring in the country
Deaths of residents related to dementias including Alzheimer
Deaths related to infectious diseases

8. 2012 data
Received already 2012 data from: AT, NO, FI, LT, LU, MT, PT, DE, ES, CH, LI, BG, HU, EE, NL, HR, SI, PL  Thank you!
Deadline for 2012 data provision is 31. December 2014
Please ensure reporting of deaths for residents and non-residents (by country of residence)
HR: 11 Dec 2014

9. Future validation
A new validation tool - EDIT - was implemented and extensively tested over summer 2014
2011 validation carried out with EDIT
EDIT will be made available to Member States in the coming weeks: Eurostat will provide a detailed description of the tool, information of training sessions and support in due time.
For the future: MS are invited to use this tool before transmitting data files to Eurostat
Planned: presentation of EDIT to TG COD in March 2015

10. Conclusion
The WG PH is invited
to take note of the results from the 2011 data collection
to send 2012 data via Edamis until
to take note of Eurostat's plans for a common validation tool

11. Thank you for your attention!