Data Source

Registry

Type of Study

Longitude survey: long-term study of the same sample

Data gathering method

Registries

Conditions of access

Formal agreements (e.g. fees, research contracts, institutional agreements, etc.)

Free access

Time elapsed between application and reception of data

Up to one year

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)

Aggregated tables

Formats available

Excel

Language issues

Data is available in English and Croatian.

Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes

Data has been collected every year until 2012.

First year of collection

First year of collection was in 1959 and beginning in 1968, data was collected electronically.

Stratification if applicable

Statification by county, age, sex, diagnosis

Base used for sampling

Registry

Geographical coverage and breakdowns

NUTS-1, NUTS-3

Age range

Individual age for each cancer patient

Statistical representativeness

Cancer patients

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics

The data source allows for a detailed study.

Further Reading

• Incidencija raka u Hrvatskoj 2010

Standardisation

EUROCIM database consists of a number of new cancer cases (Incidence database) or deaths (Mortality database).

Possibility of linkage among databases

A common variable is patient ID.

Entry errors if applicable

Incomplete data in case of failure

Breaks

NA

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection

NA

All cancer patients treated in hospitals and outpatient care are reported, cancer cases in Croatia are very good determined.