Estimate of number of weekly deaths (EoWD)

• 1. Contact

  • 1.1. Contact organisation

    • National Statistics Institute of Spain

  • 1.5. Contact mail address

    • Avenida de Manoteras 50-52 - 28050 Madrid

• 2. Metadata update

  • 2.1. Metadata last certified

    • 10/02/2026

  • 2.2. Metadata last posted

    • 18/02/2026

  • 2.3. Metadata last update

    • 10/02/2026

• 3. Statistical presentation

  • 3.1. Data description

    • The Weekly Death Estimate Statistics offers quick estimates of the number of deaths that occur each week and each month from the entries registered in the Civil Registries.

      These statistics offer disaggregated information according to autonomous community, province and island.

  • 3.2. Classification system
    • • Comunidades y Ciudades Autónomas

        • 01   Andalucía 02   Aragón 03   Asturias, Principado de 04   Balears, Illes 05   Canarias 06   Cantabria 07   Castilla y León 08   Castilla - La Mancha 09   Cataluña 10   Comunitat Valenciana 11   Extremadura 12   Galicia 13   Madrid, Comunidad de 14   Murcia, Región de 15   Navarra, Comunidad Foral de 16   País Vasco 17   Rioja, La 18   Ceuta 19   Melilla

      • Islas

        • 07   Balears, Illes      07071   Formentera      07072   Eivissa      07073   Mallorca      07074   Menorca 35   Palmas, Las      35351   Fuerteventura      35352   Gran Canaria      35353   Lanzarote 38   Santa Cruz de Tenerife      38381   Gomera, La      38382   Hierro, El      38383   Palma, La      38384   Tenerife

      • Provincias

        • 02   Albacete 03   Alicante/Alacant 04   Almería 01   Araba/Álava 33   Asturias 05   Ávila 06   Badajoz 07   Balears, Illes 08   Barcelona 48   Bizkaia 09   Burgos 10   Cáceres 11   Cádiz 39   Cantabria 12   Castellón/Castelló 13   Ciudad Real 14   Córdoba 15   Coruña, A 16   Cuenca 20   Gipuzkoa 17   Girona 18   Granada 19   Guadalajara 21   Huelva 22   Huesca 23   Jaén 24   León 25   Lleida 27   Lugo 28   Madrid 29   Málaga 30   Murcia 31   Navarra 32   Ourense 34   Palencia 35   Palmas, Las 36   Pontevedra 26   Rioja, La 37   Salamanca 38   Santa Cruz de Tenerife 40   Segovia 41   Sevilla 42   Soria 43   Tarragona 44   Teruel 45   Toledo 46   Valencia/València 47   Valladolid 49   Zamora 50   Zaragoza 51   Ceuta 52   Melilla

      • Sexo

        • 1   Hombres 2   Mujeres

  • 3.3. Sector coverage

    • Collects the deaths that occur in Spain, regardless of whether they are part of the resident or non-resident population

  • 3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
    • • Age

        • Age in years refers to the number of birthdays reached by the reference date, in other words, the age last birthday.

      • Sex

        • Sex refers to the biological sex of the person. According to the WHO, "sex" refers to biological and physiological features defining to men and women, whereas "gender" refers to the roles, behaviour, activities and attributes constructed socially that a specific culture regards as appropriate for men and women. In accordance with this description, the WHO regards "man" and "woman" as sex categories, whereas "male" and "female" are gender categories.

  • 3.5. Statistical unit

    • The basic statistical unit is the deceased person.

  • 3.6. Statistical population

    • The population under study are the deaths that occurred in Spain.

  • 3.7. Reference area

    • The statistics cover the entire national territory. Disaggregated data is published at the Autonomous Community, province and island level.

  • 3.8. Time coverage

    • Statistics disseminate data from week 1 of the year 2000 (weekly data) and January 2009 (monthly data).

  • 3.9. Base period

    • Week 1 of the year 2000 and January 2009

• 4. Unit of measure

  • 4.1. Unit of measure

    • The data is published:

      • In absolute numbers (number of deaths).
      • Accumulated so far this year.
      • Absolute difference of the accumulated so far this year.

• 5. Reference period

  • 5.1. Reference period

    • Data referring to the period: Monthly A: 2026 Week: 01

• 6. Institutional mandate

  • 6.1. Legal acts and other agreements

    • The compilation and dissemination of the data are governed by the Statistical Law No. 12/1989 "Public Statistical Function" of May 9, 1989, and Law No. 4/1990 of June 29 on “National Budget of State for the year 1990" amended by Law No. 13/1996 "Fiscal, administrative and social measures" of December 30, 1996, makes compulsory all statistics included in the National Statistics Plan. The National Statistical Plan 2009-2012 was approved by the Royal Decree 1663/2008. It contains the statistics that must be developed in the four year period by the State General Administration's services or any other entity dependent on it. All statistics included in the National Statistics Plan are statistics for state purposes and are obligatory. The National Statistics Plan 2025-2028, approved by Royal Decree 1225/2024, of  3 December, is the Plan currently implemented. This statistical operation has governmental purposes, and it is included in the National Statistics Plan 2025-2028. (Statistics of the State Administration).

  • 6.2. Data sharing

    • The exchanges of information needed to elaborate statistics between the INE and the rest of the State statistical offices (Ministerial Departments, independent bodies and administrative bodies depending on the State General Administration), or between these offices and the Autonomic statistical offices, are regulated in the LFEP (Law of the Public Statistic Function). This law also regulates the mechanisms of statistical coordination, and concludes cooperation agreements between the different offices when necessary.

      There are no planned exchanges of information with other organizations that produce statistics.

• 7. Confidentiality

  • 7.1. Confidentiality - policy

    • The Statistical Law No. 12/1989 specifies that the INE cannot publish, or make otherwise available, individual data or statistics that would enable the identification of data for any individual person or entity. Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society

  • 7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment

    • INE provides information on the protection of confidentiality at all stages of the statistical process: INE questionnaires for the operations in the national statistical plan include a legal clause protecting data under statistical confidentiality. Notices prior to data collection announcing a statistical operation notify respondents that data are subject to statistical confidentiality at all stages. For data processing, INE employees have available the INE data protection handbook, which specifies the steps that should be taken at each stage of processing to ensure reporting units' individual data are protected. The microdata files provided to users are anonymised.

• 8. Release policy

  • 8.1. Release calendar

    • The advance release calendar that shows the precise release dates for the coming year is disseminated in the last quarter of each year.

  • 8.2. Release calendar access

    • The calendar is disseminated on the INEs Internet website (Publications Calendar)

  • 8.3. User access

    • The data are released simultaneously according to the advance release calendar to all interested parties by issuing the press release. At the same time, the data are posted on the INE's Internet website (www.ine.es/en) almost immediately after the press release is issued. Also some predefined tailor-made requests are sent to registered users. Some users could receive partial information under embargo as it is publicly described in the European Statistics Code of Practice

• 9. Frequency of dissemination

  • 9.1. Frequency of dissemination

    • The dissemination frequency is monthly.

• 10. Accessibility and clarity

  • 10.1. News release

    • The results of the statistical operations are normally disseminated by using press releases that can be accessed via both the corresponding menu and the Press Releases Section in the web

  • 10.2. Publications

    • The results of these statistics are disseminated through the INE website and some results are collected in publications such as INE Figures, etc.

  • 10.3. On-line database

    • INEbase is the system the INE uses to store statistical information on the Internet. It contains all the information the INE produces in electronic formats. The primary organisation of the information follows the theme-based classification of the Inventory of Statistical Operations of the State General Administration . The basic unit of INEbase is the statistical operation, defined as the set of activities that lead to obtaining statistical results on a determined sector or subject based on the individually collected data. Also included in the scope of this definition are synthesis preparation.

      No. of queries to data tables AC1=69,710 No. of queries to metadata AC2=788

  • 10.4. Micro-data access
    • A lot of statistical operations disseminate public domain anonymized files, available free of charge for downloading in the INE website Microdata Section
  • 10.5. Other

    • It is possible to request tailored information from the INE Information Area. These requests are processed taking into account limitations on confidentiality or accuracy.

      See:https://www.ine.es/ss/Satellite?L=0&c=Page&cid=1254735550786&p=1254735550786&pagename=ProductosYServicios%2FPYSLayout&rendermode=previewnoinsitem

  • 10.6. Documentation on methodology

    • The methodology document can be accessed at the following link:

      https://www.ine.es/en/metodologia/t15/metodologia_EDeS_en.pdf

      AC3=100%.

       

       

  • 10.7. Quality documentation

    • Sections 10.6 to 17 of this document are considered the user-oriented quality report for this operation.

• 11. Quality management

  • 11.1. Quality assurance

    • Quality assurance framework for the INE statistics is based on the ESSCoP, the European Statistics Code of Practice made by EUROSTAT. The ESSCoP is made up of 16 principles, gathered in three areas: Institutional Environment, Processes and Products. Each principle is associated with some indicators which make possible to measure it. In order to evaluate quality, EUROSTAT provides different tools: the indicators mentioned above, Self-assessment based on the DESAP model, peer review, user satisfaction surveys and other proceedings for evaluation.

      In order to manage the quality of these statistics based on an administrative record, exhaustive controls are carried out in all phases of the process. Special emphasis is placed on checking that the values of the variables are valid, elimination of duplicates and that there are no inconsistencies in the information received.

  • 11.2. Quality assessment

    • The information is of high quality, as it is based on data recorded by the Civil Registries through the DICIREG application of the Secretariat of State for Justice. Following its full rollout across the entire national territory in August 2025, the system has ensured that all deaths are recorded, resulting in a high degree of stability in the data.

      As a strong point of the statistics, it is worth highlighting the great speed in providing reliable information on the number of deaths. Thanks to INFOREG (and its successor DICIREG) today it is possible to know with sufficient precision the number of deaths that occurred a week ago, in those municipalities that have computerized civil registries.

• 12. Relevance

  • 12.1. User needs

    • Users of this statistic include:

      • Researchers and Universities.
      • territorial administrations
      • enterprises
      • individuals

      Each of these users has different needs depending on the purpose and usefulness of the information they require. In particular, researchers and universities need detailed data on deaths, disaggregated by variables (sex, age) to conduct mortality studies, identify patterns and risk factors, and develop research on public health and health policies; local governments require weekly estimates of deaths by region and reports on mortality broken down by population group to make decisions on the allocation of public health resources and to evaluate and adjust local health and welfare policies; companies need estimates of overall and risk group mortality so that they can plan occupational health risk management and establish corporate social responsibility policies based on population health; and, finally, individuals require overall mortality data for their community or province to learn about mortality trends and plan personal health decisions.

      With the implementation of DICIREG across the entire national territory, the following general needs have been addressed:

      • Inequality in the coverage of death registrations: the computerisation of Civil Registries is now homogeneous nationwide, eliminating discrepancies in the quality and timeliness of the data.
      • Delays in the receipt of data from Civil Registries: digitalisation speeds up the immediacy with which results can be provided, thereby improving their usefulness for users.

      However, an unmet need remains: the lack of greater data disaggregation, which would allow the analysis of more complex or specific sociodemographic patterns. To address this issue, work is underway to expand the number of available variables and to provide a higher level of data disaggregation, enabling users to access more detailed and timely information.

  • 12.2. User satisfaction

    • The INE has carried out general user satisfaction surveys in 2007, 2010, 2013,  2016 and 2019 and it plans to continue doing so every three years. The purpose of these surveys is to find out what users think about the quality of the information of the INE statistics and the extent to which their needs of information are covered. In addition, additional surveys are carried out in order to acknowledge better other fields such as dissemination of the information, quality of some publications...

      On the INE website, in its section Methods and Projects / Quality and Code of Practice / INE quality management / User surveys are available surveys conducted to date.(Click  next link)

       

      The INE has carried out general user satisfaction surveys in 2007, 2010, 2013,  2016 and 2019 and it plans to continue doing so every three years. The purpose of these surveys is to find out what users think about the quality of the information of the INE statistics and the extent to which their needs of information are covered. In addition, additional surveys are carried out in order to acknowledge better other fields such as dissemination of the information, quality of some publications...

      On the INE website, in its section Methods and Projects / Quality and Code of Practice / INE quality management / User surveys are available surveys conducted to date:

      https://ine.es/ss/Satellite?c=Page&pagename=MetodologiaYEstandares%2FINELayout&cid=1259944133654&L=1

       

       

      In the user satisfaction surveys carried out to date, the Demography and Population sector that includes this statistical operation is assessed, which could provide indications regarding users' opinion on the operation.

       

  • 12.3. Completeness

    • The information that is collected allows us to attend to all the requests that are received.

      The data completeness rate is 100%

      R1=100%

• 13. Accuracy and reliability

  • 13.1. Overall accuracy

    • The quality of the recording of the data in the Civil Registries, the error correction, data validation, imputation of the lack of information or adjustments for the delay in the reception of the information allows obtaining a high degree of reliability of the statistics.

  • 13.2. Sampling error

    • As it is a statistic based on an administrative record, it does not have sampling errors.

  • 13.3. Non-sampling error

    • Deaths registered in the Civil Registries and recorded in DICIREG by the Secretariat of State for Justice account for 100% of deaths in Spain.

      A4=0%

• 14. Timeliness and punctuality

  • 14.1. Timeliness

    • The data is published monthly on a working day of week s of month m and the series of weekly deaths is updated up to week s-3 (calendar week, from Monday to Sunday) and month m-2.

      As provisional and definitive data on death statistics (Natural Population Movement) based on CMD/BED documents become available, the estimates will be replaced by these provisional or definitive data. Thus, the data for week s of the year 2025 will be considered final in November 2026.

      TP1: 16 days

      TP2: 11 months

      Future efforts to reduce this time lag in the future are focused on the progressive computerization of civil registries, optimization of internal processes and collaboration with other agencies.

       

  • 14.2. Punctuality

    • The dissemination of the data is carried out in accordance with the calendar of availability of the statistics that the INE prepares and publishes for each year.

      TP3 = 100%

       

• 15. Coherence and Comparability

  • 15.1. Comparability - geographical

    • Under-registration coefficients are calculated and applied according to the province of registration.  Until May 2024, the estimated data were published according to province of registration. However, as of this date, the estimated data are published according to province of residence in order to improve the comparability of the provisional data with the final data from previous years.

      On occasions, the residence of the deceased is not always well informed in DICIREG, and therefore in these cases, the province of residence of the deceased has been imputed according to the place where the registration was made.

       

  • 15.2. Comparability - over time

    • The statistics are comparable throughout the period. There has been no methodological break

      CC2 = 1353 weeks

  • 15.3. Coherence - cross domain

    • This statistic is consistent with the Death Statistics.

  • 15.4. Coherence - internal

    • The consistency between variables is contrasted in all phases of the statistical process.

• 16. Cost and burden

  • 16.1. Cost and burden

    • Being a statistic based on an administrative record, they do not have an additional burden on the informants.

      The estimate of the budget credit necessary to finance the Estimate of weekly deaths provided for in the 2026 Annual Program is 47.94 thousand euros.

      To increase production efficiency, the complete computerization of civil registries, the improvement of interoperability between the different databases and the improvement of predictive statistical models will be of great help.

• 17. Data revision

  • 17.1. Data revision - policy

    • The INE of Spain has a policy which regulates the basic aspects of statistical data revision, seeking to ensure process transparency and product quality. This policy is laid out in the document approved by the INE board of directors on 13 March of 2015, which is available on the INE website, in the section "Methods and projects/Quality and Code of Practice/INE’s Quality management/INE’s Revision policy" (link).

      This general policy sets the criteria that the different type of revisions should follow:  routine revision- it is the case of statistics whose production process includes regular revisions-; more extensive revision- when methodological or basic reference source changes take place-; and exceptional revision- for instance, when an error appears in a published statistic-.

  • 17.2. Data revision - practice

    • Two types of data coexist in the project:

      • Definitive data: deaths to the last data published in 2024.
      • Estimated data: deaths from 2025 to the present.

      Estimated data are reviewed and updated in each monthly publication.

      A6-RMAR=0.16%

      Calculated based on the total of the last 12 months

• 18. Statistical processing

  • 18.1. Source data

    • The original source of the data is the registration of deaths in the civil registries. For several years, the Ministry of Justice has promoted the progressive digitalization of civil registries through specific applications such as INFOREG, which is used to record various registry entries, including deaths. Although INFOREG has not been implemented uniformly across the entire territory, its use has enabled broad and stable coverage over the years. In this context, the EDeS statistics have incorporated a method to estimate the total number of deaths based on the available digitized records. Starting in October 2021, INFOREG was gradually replaced by a new application, DICIREG. Its full deployment is expected to be completed by the end of this year.

  • 18.2. Frequency of data collection

    • The collection of information is daily. Every day the INE receives the files with the deaths recorded in the Civil Registries up to the previous day.

  • 18.3. Data collection

    • To carry out these statistics, the information is obtained from:

      • The definitive files of the Death Statistics (from the year 2000 to the year 2024).
      • The daily files received by the INE from the Secretariat of State for Justice.
  • 18.4. Data validation

    • Multiple analyzes of the coherence of the evolution of the data are carried out

  • 18.5. Data compilation

    • First, the INE verifies the receipt, reading, and processing of the files received from the Secretariat of State for Justice. Subsequently, data cleaning and validation are carried out. The data are updated and corrected with each new release of results.

      The last stage before the dissemination of the information is aimed at analyzing the aggregated information and verifying the consistency of the information offered.

      Quality Indicator 'Imputation rate' A7=0%.

  • 18.6. Adjustment

    • No seasonal adjustment is applied.

• 19. Comment

  • 19.1. Comment