The objective of the annual survey on deaths is to collect data on demographic and socio-economic features of dead person, data on origin and cause of death, as well as data on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of mother of dead infant.

The following data are collected: for every dead person (sex, date of death, date of birth, place of birth, citizenship, ethnicity, place of usual residence, educational attainment, activity, occupation, where the death event took place, informant on cause of death, underlying cause of death, origin of death), for dead infant (child born within wedlock or out of wedlock, body mass at birth, gestation age, date of birth of mother, number of children that mother has born up to the moment), for violent deaths (origin of violent death, nature of injury).