Underlying Causes of Death (a-list) 2002-2019 [SUELDA1A]

The Population Register contains information on all persons who have resided in Greenland after 1 January 1977. The purpose of the register is to be the basis for population statistics, and to supplement other personal information
with basic information about each person, like address and family relations.The Population register is updated with information from CPR (Administrative Population Register) where the following information is retrieved:
name, gender, age, place of birth, citizenship, marital status, reference to mother, father and spouse, address of residence and more.
According to §13 of the Act on Greenland Statistics, no person-related information is disclosed from the register, except for personal numbers, randomly drawn for surveys For every death that occurs in Greenland, a doctor issues a death certificate in connection with the corpse inquest.The doctor must issue the death certificate, without undue delay, when the necessary information is available. The death certificate consists of 2 pages. The death certificate page 1 is a legal document used asevidence that the person has passed away at death. The death certificate page 2 contains the medicalinformation about the death. The death certificate page 1 contains formal information for identifying the deceased, as well as the doctor'sdeclaration that death has occurred. The information is also used for the personal registration in the CPR register. Page 2 of the death certificate contains information on causes of death, manner of death, etc. At least one must be specifiedcause of death on the death certificate, but several can be stated. The most important information is the underlyingcause of death.

age

Age at date of death

causes

The underlying cause of death is the cause of death that started the course of the individual cases led to death. Possibly, other causes of death are defined as additional causes of death.

district

Similar to municipalities before 2009

source

Information about causes of death is stated on the death certificate, which is submitted to the National Board of Health for each death in Greenland. The National Board of Health carries out an ongoing registration and quality assurance of received death certificates concerning citizens in Greenland.
The death certificates are sent to the Danish Health and Medicines Authority, which carries out coding and registration of the causes of death in collaboration with the National Board of Health.
Preparation, quality assurance and entry of death certificates is a time-consuming process, so the National Board of Health publishes several statistical statements with a time lag.
Statistics Greenland receives information from the National Population Registers (via CPR) on all registered changes to the population and publishes preliminary figures approximately 5 weeks after the end of a period. Information on deaths does not include cause of death, only that deaths have occurred.
There is some difference in the number of deaths, depending on the source used. Both sources contain some errors that can only be detected by carpooling and error correction.

time

Calendar year of death. (Including delayed reports)

causes

Suicide and attempted suicide

Only suicide is registered