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Causes of death

21 Sources for coding underlying cause of death. 2006. Per cent1 (Corrected 15.05.2009)
Underlying cause of death Deaths total Total No document No death certificate Only death certi-ficate Deaths with other docu-ments attached Result from autopsy Information from the Cancer Registry2 Documents from the Medical Birth Registry Returned form for supplementary inform- ation Other documents
Deaths total (A00-Y89) 41 242  100.0 0.9 0.1 89.13 9.93 7.5 0.43 0.3 1.0 0.6
Infectious and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)  743  100.0 0.0 0.0 92.1 7.9 6.1 0.0 0.0 1.3 0.5
Neoplasms (C00-D48) 10 692 99.9 0.0 0.0 67.7 32.2 4.1 1.53 0.0 0.3 0.1
Diseases of the blood and bloodforming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89)  140  100.0 0.0 0.7 88.6 10.7 8.6 0.0 0.0 0.7 2.1
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90) 1 142  100.0 0.0 0.0 92.7 7.3 4.7 0.0 0.1 1.6 0.9
Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99) 1 605  100.0 0.0 0.0 95.1 4.9 2.7 0.0 0.0 1.6 0.6
Diseases of the nervous system and the sense organs (G00-H95) 1 376  100.1 0.0 0.1 91.6 8.4 6.4 0.0 0.1 1.5 0.4
Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99) 14 657  100.0 0.0 0.1 92.1 7.8 6.7 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.5
Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99) 3 959  100.0 0.0 0.0 95.9 4.1 3.4 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.2
Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K93) 1 276  100.0 0.0 0.0 84.2 15.8 13.5 0.0 0.0 1.9 0.4
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99) 86  100.0 0.0 0.0 90.7 9.3 7.0 0.0 0.0 2.3 0.0
Diseases of musculoskeletal system/connective tissue (M00-M99)  236  100.0 0.0 0.0 91.5 8.5 5.1 0.0 0.0 1.3 2.1
Diseases of genitourinary system (N00-N99)  941  100.0 0.0 0.0 97.2 2.8 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.9
Complicatons of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (O00-O99) 4  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)  117  100.1 0.0 0.9 6.0 93.2 36.8 0.0 57.3 0.0 0.0
Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)  134 99.9 0.0 0.7 50.7 48.5 21.6 0.0 23.1 3.7 0.7
Symptoms, signs, abnormal findings, ill-defined causes (R00-R99) 1 732  100.0 22.2 0.1 66.2 11.5 2.7 0.0 0.1 4.2 4.7
Violent deaths, total (V01-Y89) 2 402  100.0 0.0 0.8 55.5 43.7 41.3 0.0 0.0 2.1 1.0
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.
2  For the year 2003 Statistics Norway has received less information from the Cancer Registry.
3  Corrected 15.05.2009.

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