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21   Sources for coding underlying cause of death. 2003. Per cent1
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 Registry2 Documents from the Medical Birth Registry Returned form for supplementary information Other documents
Deaths total (A00-Y89) 42 550  100 1.4 0.2 85.4 13.0 9.2 1.7 0.3 1.3 0.7
                       
Infectious and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)  609  100 0.0 0.0 86.2 13.8 9.9 0.0 0.3 3.6 0.0
Neoplasms (C00-D48) 10 723  100 0.0 0.0 87.0 13.0 6.0 6.7 0.0 0.1 0.2
Diseases of the blood and bloodforming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89)  114  100 0.0 0.0 87.7 12.3 11.4 0.0 0.0 0.9 0.0
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90)  933  100 0.0 0.1 86.0 13.9 9.4 0.0 0.1 4.4 0.1
Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99) 1 262  100 0.0 0.2 94.1 5.7 3.9 0.0 0.0 1.3 0.6
Diseases of the nervous system and the sense organs (G00-H95) 1 258  100 0.3 0.1 90.7 8.9 6.5 0.0 0.3 1.8 0.3
Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99) 16 623  100 0.0 0.1 90.9 9.0 7.6 0.0 0.0 1.1 0.4
Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99) 3 941  100 0.0 0.1 92.8 7.2 6.1 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.3
Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K93) 1 304  100 0.2 0.5 77.4 22.0 18.2 0.0 0.0 4.1 0.2
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99) 77  100 0.0 0.0 93.5 6.5 6.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Diseases of musculoskeletal system/connective tissue (M00-M99)  251  100 0.0 0.0 81.7 18.3 14.7 0.0 0.0 2.8 0.8
Diseases of genitourinary system (N00-N99)  710  100 0.0 0.1 93.7 6.2 4.5 0.0 0.0 1.7 0.1
Complicatons of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (O00-O99) 7  100 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)  113  100 0.0 1.8 9.7 88.5 27.4 0.0 62.8 0.0 0.0
Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)  139  100 0.0 1.4 42.4 56.1 30.2 0.0 24.5 2.9 0.0
Symptoms, signs, abnormal findings, ill-defined causes (R00-R99) 2 024  100 27.8 0.7 61.2 10.3 1.8 0.0 0.0 4.3 4.7
Violent deaths, total (V01-Y89) 2 462  100 0.0 1.7 50.0 48.3 42.9 0.0 0.0 2.8 4.3
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.

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