Death statistics

Identification

Name of the operation.

Death statistics

Operation Code.

010303 (Basque Statistics Plan)

Responsible body.

Eustat

Other participating bodies.

National Statistics Institute, Department of Health

Periodicity

Quarterly

Type of operation.

Census

Methodology according to the origin of the data

Administrative data

Objectives

Mortality Statistics, prepared by the EUSTAT, referring to deaths that affect residents within the territorial area of the Basque Country, is the result of the technical cooperation agreement with the National Statistics Institute (INE) signed in December of 1995, which repeals an earlier agreement from March 1986. Whereas censuses or registers provide specific and static information, referring to a concrete date when they are carried out, the Natural Movement of the Population, in which Statistics on Births, Marriage Statistics and Mortality Statistics are grouped together with Migratory Movements, determine the evolution of the population over time by examining them in a dynamic way. Among the many reasons behind the signing of the agreement at that time and that still guarantee its continuity today, we should highlight:

a) The need to meet the demands of Basque Government Departments and the EUSTAT requiring this information more promptly than the National Statistics Institute can provide it.

b) In particular, requests from the Department of Heath requiring current and disaggregated data on deaths by causes, for their different action programmes in the field of health and social services.

c) The lack of sufficient published results by the National Statistics Institute (INE). While the information for the whole of the State is quite complete, at an Autonomous Community, Provincial, District and Municipal level it is completely insufficient.

All in all, the objective of the agreement to prepare Mortality Statistics is to obtain better information, faster and more territorially disaggregated in order to satisfy the needs of the EUSTAT for its own goals, those of the Basque Government departments and all the users of this operation.

Coverage

The population

to which this operation refers is all deceased personsl

Geographic area:

All events that take place in the A.C. of Euskadi, i.e., entered in the Civil Registers of the different municipalities in the Community. The result would not be complete if we did not also include those events registered outside the Community, but that affect residents thereof. These reports are obtained through information obtained from the INE for the rest of the Autonomous Communities. In any case, the data refers to events that affect residents of the A.C. of Euskadi, regardless of where they took place. The maximum disaggregation with which the data is published is municipal.

Time frame:

Information is collected continuously throughout the year, reports being prepared in monthly batches and corresponding to entries made in Civil Registers during the month

Concepts and Definitions

Concepts and Definitions

Questionnaires

Questionnaires

Dissemination

• Statistics Gazette (Quarterly)
• Internet: www.eustat.eus
• EUSTAT Statistical Yearbook
• Press Releases
• Data-Bank