Script to scrape data from Socialstyrelsens database over death statistics. You need to specify which codes to fetch via that codes parameter in main().

scrape_soc_statistics.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from lxml.html import fromstring
import os
import csv
import requests

def _get_payload_for_code(code):
    parameters = {
        "i_%s_3" % code: "on",
        "visaAG": "on",
        "hvDIA": ";%s;" % code,
        "hvOMR": ";1;;3;;4;;5;;6;;7;;8;;9;;10;;12;;13;;14;;17;;18;;19;;20;;21;;22;;23;;24;;25;",
        "vKON": ";1;;2;",
        "vMATT": ";1;",
        "vAR": ";2013;",
        "vAGI": ";1;;2;;3;;4;;5;;6;;7;;8;;9;;10;;11;;12;;13;;14;;15;;16;;17;;18;",
    }
    return parameters

def _create_file_from_scaped_data(filename, data):
    if os.path.isfile(filename):
        return

    print "Creating %s" % filename
    with open(filename, 'wb') as csvfile:
        writer = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter=';')
        for row in data:
            encoded_row = []
            for cell in row:
                if isinstance(cell, unicode):
                    encoded_row.append(cell.encode("utf-8"))
                else:
                    encoded_row.append(cell)

            writer.writerow(encoded_row)

def _data_from_html(html):
    doc = fromstring(html)
    tables = doc.cssselect("table")

    if not tables:
        return None

    table = tables[0]
    data = []

    # Header
    data.append([el.text for el in table.cssselect("th font a font")])

    # Rows
    rows = table.cssselect("tr")
    for row in rows[1:]:
        data.append([el.text if el.text != "--" else "0" for el in row.cssselect("td font")])

    return data

def main():
    url = "http://192.137.163.49/sdb/if_dor/resultat.aspx"
    codes = ["C00", "C01"]
    for code in codes:
        payload = _get_payload_for_code(code)
        print "Fetching code %s" % code
        response = requests.post(url, data=payload)
        if not response.status_code == 200:
            print "Error getting code %s" % code
            return

        data = _data_from_html(response.content)
        if data:
            filename = os.path.join("data", "codes", code + ".csv")
            _create_file_from_scaped_data(filename, data)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

For reference.
"Assuming the HTML structure of the table is similar between different tables, it might be possible to re-purpose this script for subjects other than cause of death statistics. Headlines are stored in TH tags, and data in TR TD tags. "