Vital statistics on causes of death (S)

Reference period  
Year:
2011

General characteristics  
Contents:
Mortality
Analysis units:
Deaths
Periodicity:
Yearly
EU legislation:
Yes

Survey design  
Type:
Census

Data collection  
Reporting units:
Municipal register offices
Data collection mode:
Acquisition of paper registers of individual administrative data; Acquisition of a database of individual administrative data; Acquisition of paper registers of individual statistical data collected while drafting administrative records
Total units:
8092
Respondents:
7739

Quality  
Prevention, monitoring and evaluation of unit nonresponse:
Initiatives to foster survey participation; Follow-ups of nonrespondent units/bodies
Item nonresponse and measurement error treatment:
Operator training and supervision and assessment of survey procedures; Adjustement methods to reduce the effects of measurement and partial nonresponse errors; Methods to estimate the effects of measurement and partial nonresponse errors
Validation:
Coherence control with data from other surveys or sources; Coherence control with previous data of the same survey

Data dissemination  
Istat data bases:
Health for All - Italia; I.Stat
Other data bases:
Banca dati Eurostat - Eurostat (Statistical office of the European Union); World Health Organisation - Eurostat (Statistical office of the European Union)
Press releases:
None
Timeliness of provisional data:
Not released
Timeliness of final data:
2 years and 1 days