Registers

The National Board of Health and Welfare administer a number of national registers to facilitate analyzes and development of Swedish healthcare and social services.

Statistical databases for our registers

For six of our registers we provide statistical databases with information in English.

These are:

  • Abortion
  • AMI (Acute Myocardial Infarctions)
  • Cancer
  • Cause of death
  • Health care practitioners
  • In-patient care diagnosis

More information about all health data registers, social services registers and other registers, such as the cause of death register (only available in Swedish).

Our other statistical registers

  • National Cause of Death Register
  • National Register of Care and Social Services for the Elderly and Persons with Impairments
  • National Register of Municipal Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairment
  • National Register of Measures for Children and Young persons
  • National Register of Social Assistance
  • National Register of Interventions in Municipal Health Care
  • National Dental Health Register
  • National Register of Care for Substance Abuse
  • National Basal Cell Cancer Register
  • National Register of Congenital Anomalies

Individual-based data for research purposes

Register data is protected by strict confidentiality but can be made available for research after a special review. Applications for individual-based data for research purposes generally take 6–8 months from order to delivery and we charge SEK 1,650 (excl. VAT) per hour for the time spent on submitted applications. The fee includes administration, legal consultation and data withdrawal.

The National Board of Health and Welfare is a government agency under the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. It is not our policy to provide individual level data to researchers abroad. Instead, we normally advice researchers in other countries to cooperate with Swedish colleagues, to whom we can provide data according to standard legal provisions and procedures.

Further information can be found on the swedish version of our website.  Order data and statistics (only in Swedish)

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