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• Main Authors: Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, Heine Gøtzsche, Jørgen Østrup Møller, Preben Bo Mortensen, Dan Med Bull
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: Greenland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.554.1652; http://www.dadlnet.dk/dmb/Dmb_2006/0406/0406-artikler/DMB3816.pdf

Background: The Danish Civil Registration System (CRS) was established in 1968, where all persons alive and living in Denmark were registered. Among many other variables, it includes individual information on personal identi-fication number, gender, date of birth, place of birth, place of residence, citi-zenship, continuously updated information on vital status, and the identity of parents and spouses. Methods: To evaluate the quality and completeness of the information re-corded on persons in the CRS, we considered all persons registered on No-vember 4, 2005, i.e. all persons who were alive and resident in Denmark at least one day from April 2, 1968 to November 4, 2005, or in Greenland from