Department responsible

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Competitiveness - State Secretariat for Research 

Executing unit

Health Institute Carlos III - National Epidemiology Centre

Participation of other institutions

MSSI, Direcciones generales de Salud Pública de todas las comunidades autónomas

Type of operation

Real statistics with results grouped in tables

Sector or subject

Health

Subsector or subsubject

Prevention and detection of diseases

Breakdown level

Provincial

Methodology of data collection methodology

Obtaining by means of complete list of original administrative data

Form of data collection

Transcription of administrative document, regardless of how it is filled in

Overall objective

Vigilancia epidemiológica de las enfermedades transmisibles y conocimiento de la distribución de sus agentes etiológicos

Study variables

Agente etiológico, enfermedad, criterios diagnósticos, edad, sexo

Classification variables

Type of dissemination

Boletín epidemiológico semanal, Internet

Periodicity of dissemination

Semanal

Periodicity of data collection

Semanal

Type of operation

Interims

Units

Muestras clínicas que se procesan en los laboratorios

Administrative sources

No aplicable

Dictated by the High Council on Statistics

Sí - En la reunión de la Comisión Permanente del CSE de 4-12-2012

These are European statistics, according to European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) no. 223/2009

No