Using death certificate data to study place of death in 9 European countries: opportunities and weaknesses

BMC Public Health

Table 5 variables potentially associated with place of death on the data-file

	BE*	DK	IT*	SE	NL	Engl./Wales (UK)*	Scotland (UK)	NO
Sociodemographic variables
age	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
sex	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
civil status	X	L	X	X	^†		X	X
living environment/family type of deceased (alone, institute,...)	X	L			L
level of education	X	L	X	L				L
nationality	X	L	X	X	L	X ^‡		L
Clinical characteristics
natural vs. non-natural death	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
cause of death	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Residence characteristics
municipality of death	X	X	X	X	^†		X	X
municipality of residence	X	X	X	X	^†	X	X	X
urbanisation	L	X	L	L	L	L	L	X
contextual SES	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L
hospital bed rate	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	L

An X indicates that the variable is on the death certificate and on the death statistics file, an L indicates that the variable was available via linkage with other databases
*: Comprises all separate regions for Italy, Belgium, and England/Wales
†: the variable was available, but was not provided to us because of data protection policy
‡: country of birth

ISSN: 1471-2458