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

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Available categories of the variable 'place of death' on the death statistics database

	Hospital	Psychiatric hospital	Nursing home	Home for older people	Other institutes	Home	Other
Belgium^‡	X		X*			X	X
Denmark	X		X^†			/	X
Italy^‡	/					X	X
Sweden	X^¶	X				/	X
The Netherlands	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
England & Wales (UK)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Scotland (UK)	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Norway	X**	X	X**			X	X

An X indicates categories on the death certificate and on the data file; an/indicates categories on the death certificate but not coded on the datafile
*: One category of 'care home' is given, comprising both nursing homes and homes for older people
†: This is a category 'institution' (comprising all institution, except hospitals)
‡: Comprises all separate regions for Italy and Belgium
¶ not recorded on the death certificate data file, but could be deduced from the postcodes
**: care homes and hospitals are lumped together in one category

ISSN: 1471-2458