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Causes of death

21   Sources for coding underlying cause of death. 2002 1. Per cent
Underlying cause of death Deaths, total Total No document No death certificate Only death certificate Deaths with other documents attached Result from autopsy Information from the Cancer Registry Documents from the Medical Birth Registry Returned form for supplementary information Other documents
Deaths, total (A00-Y89) 44 401  100.0 1.3 0.4 64.7 33.6 8.9 23.0 0.3 1.1 0.8
                       
Infectious and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)  585  100.0 0.0 0.0 88.2 11.8 8.5 0.0 0.2 2.4 0.7
Neoplasms (C00-D48) 10 901  100.1 0.0 0.6 0.9 98.6 5.4 93.6 0.0 0.0 0.0
Diseases of the blood and bloodforming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89)  123  100.0 0.0 0.0 83.7 16.3 11.4 0.0 0.8 1.6 2.4
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90)  912 99.9 0.1 0.2 86.8 12.8 8.2 0.0 0.3 3.9 0.5
Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99) 1 310  100.0 0.0 0.2 77.0 22.8 21.7 0.0 0.0 1.1 0.2
Diseases of the nervous system and the sense organs (G00-H95) 1 126  100.1 0.1 0.2 90.1 9.7 8.3 0.0 0.3 0.5 0.7
Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99) 17 642 99.9 0.0 0.1 91.1 8.7 7.5 0.0 0.0 0.9 0.4
Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99) 4 669 99.9 0.0 0.0 94.2 5.7 4.6 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.1
Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K93) 1 364  100.1 0.0 0.3 79.3 20.5 17.2 0.0 0.0 3.2 0.3
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99) 79  100.0 0.0 0.0 94.9 5.1 5.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Diseases of musculoskeletal system/connective tissue (M00-M99)  288  100.0 0.0 0.7 85.1 14.2 11.8 0.0 0.0 3.1 0.0
Diseases of genitourinary system (N00-N99)  688  100.0 0.0 0.0 95.8 4.2 2.6 0.0 0.0 1.2 0.4
Complicatons of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (O00-O99) 2  100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0  100.0  100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96) 91  100.0 0.0 0.0 7.7 92.3 24.2 0.0 64.8 3.3 0.0
Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)  141  100.0 0.0 1.4 48.2 50.4 8.5 0.0 36.2 6.4 0.7
Symptoms, signs, abnormal findings, ill-defined causes (R00-R99) 2 193 99.9 26.9 0.9 62.3 9.8 2.0 0.0 0.0 3.1 5.7
Violent deaths, total (V01-Y89) 2 287  100.0 0.0 2.0 52.7 45.3 39.8 0.0 0.0 2.1 5.4
1  The 5 last columns of the table show the percentage of deaths having documents with supplementary information attached. For some of the deaths several supplementary documents are attached. This is, however, not evident in the table, as only the more highly ranked supplementary document is included for each death. The supplementary documents are ranked from left to right in the table, i.e. in the sequence Result from autopsy, Information from the Cancer Registry, Documents from the Medical Birth Registry, Returned form for supplementary information, and other.

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