This article describes the Register for Suicide Attempts (RSA) that was developed during the WHO/Euro Multicentre Study on Parasuicide. The RSA is a longitudinal, person-based register that contains information about people who have been in contact with the health care system in the County of Funen as a result of a suicide. It contains 11 variables that describe the incident in detail, & a number of variables that describe the person. The RSA contains data covering the period April 1989 to December 2001 & is updated annually. (29 refs)