Data sources

Sources of data

Country Data sources Data providers
Austria* Birth statistics (Statistics Austria)
* Cause of death statistics (Statistics Austria)
* Statistics Austria
Belgium * Vital Statistics, Statistics Belgium (Statbel) * Statbel
Croatia * Croatian Medical Birth Database (Croatian Public Health Institute),
* Croatian Mortality Database (Croatian Central Bureau of Statistics) –
* Croatian Institute of Public Health
Cyprus * Medical Birth register (Health Monitoring Unit, Cyprus Ministry of Health)
* Causes of Death register (Health Monitoring Unit, Cyprus Ministry of Health)
* Database for COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths (Health Monitoring Unit, Cyprus
Ministry of Health)
* Health Monitoring Unit, Ministry of Health
Czech Republic * Institute of Health Statistics and Information of the Czech Republic (national birth register
(mothers and newborns) collecting individual perinatal data.)
* Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the
Czech Republic
Denmark * Medical birth register (The Danish Data authority, Danish Ministry of Health)
* National patient register (The Danish Data authority, Danish Ministry of Health)
* Danish causes of death register (The Danish Data authority, Danish Ministry of Health)
* The Centralized Civil Register
* Statistics Denmark
Estonia * Estonian Medical Birth Register (National Institute for Public Health) was linked with data from
* Estonian Cause of Death Register (National Institute for Public Health)
* Estonian Institute for Population Studies, Tallinn
University
Finland * Medical Birth Register (Finnish Institute for Health Welfare) linked with Central Population
Register (Digital and Population Data Services Agency) and Cause of Death Register
(Statistics Finland)
* Register on Induced Abortions (Finnish Institute for Health Welfare) for late terminations
22–24 weeks
* Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
France * Hospital discharge data ( Programme de Médicalisation des Systèmes d’Information (PMSI))
in the French National System of Health Data ( Système national des données de santé (SDNS))
* Department for Research, Studies, Assessment
and Statistics (DREES), French Ministry of Health
Germany * IQTIG (Federal Institute for the Quality of Medical Care)
* Destatis (Federal Statistical Office)
* IQTIG
Iceland * The Icelandic Birth Registration
* Hospital register (National University Hospital)
* National University Hospital
Ireland *National Perinatal Reporting System (the Healthcare Pricing Office) * Healthcare Pricing Office
Italy * Birth certificates (Ministry of Health)
* Causes of deaths (Istat)
* Terminations of pregnancies (Istat)
* Miscarriages (Istat)
* Italian National Institute for Statistics-ISTAT
Latvia * Newborn Register of Latvia (Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia)
* Register of Causes of Death (Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of Latvia)
* The Centre for Disease Prevention and Control of
Latvia
Lithuania * Medical Date of Births (Institute of Hygiene Health Information Centre)
* Database of the Demographic Statistics (Central Statistical Office)
* Causes of Death register (Institute of Hygiene Health Information Centre)
* Institute of Hygiene, Health Information Centre
Luxembourg * Perinatal Health Monitoring System (Luxembourg Institute of Health)
* National Causes of Death Registry (Directorate of Health of Luxembourg)
* Department of Population Health, Luxembourg
Institute of Health
* Directorate of Health of Luxembourg
Malta * National Obstetrics Information System (Directorate for Health Information and Research)
* National Mortality Register (Directorate for Health Information and Research)
* Directorate for Health Information and Research
Netherlands * Perined (The Netherlands Perinatal Registry) * Perined
Norway * Medical Birth Register of Norway (The Norwegian Institute of Public Health) * The Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Poland * Central Statistical Office
* Ministry of Health
* National Research Institute of Mother and Child
Portugal * Instituto Nacional de Estatística – Portugal (Statistics Portugal)
* Central Administration of the Health System
* Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto
Romania * National Institute for Public Health Romania * National Institute of Public Health Romania
Slovakia *National Health Information Center * National Health Information Center
Slovenia *Perinatal information system (National institute of public health) * University Medical Centre, Research Unit
Spain * Vital Statistics (National Statistics Office)
* Specialized Care Registry – Minimum Basic Data Set (Ministry of Health)
* Senior Statistical State Corps and Public Health and
Addictions Directorate, Generalitat Valenciana
Sweden * Medical Birth Register (The National Board of Health and Welfare) * The National Board of Health and Welfare
Switzerland * Vital Statistics (BEVNAT) * Swiss Federal Statistical Office
UK, all * MBRRACE UK (University of Oxford and University of Leicester) * University of Leicester, MBRRACE-UK collaboration
UK, England, and Wales *UK, Office for National Statistics (Live birth and stillbirth registration in England and Wales,
birth notification in England and Wales)
* Office for National Statistics
UK, Northern Ireland * Northern Ireland Maternity System – NIMATS *Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland)
UK, Scotland * Scottish Morbidity Record 02 (maternity hospital discharge record)
* National Records of Scotland Stillbirth, live birth, and infant death registrations (statutory
vital event registration)
* Public Health Scotland
UK, Wales *Digital Health and Care Wales * Digital Health and Care Wales ( DHCW)