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Table 3 Incidence rates (admissions/presentations per person-year) by sociodemographic category and dataset, comparing the gold-standard benchmark to the linkage results

From: Sociodemographic differences in linkage error: an examination of four large-scale datasets

 

NSW Emergency

NSW Hospital

SA Emergency

WA Hospital

GSa

Estimated

GS

Estimated

GS

Estimated

GS

Estimated

Remoteness

 Major Cities

0.68

0.68

0.41

0.41

0.75

0.76

0.47

0.48

 Regional

0.83

0.84

0.42

0.43

0.53

0.53

0.46

0.46

 Remote

0.59

0.590

0.46

0.47

0.50

0.50

0.48

0.52

Sex

 Male

0.72

0.73

0.42

0.42

0.70

0.70

0.46

0.47

 Female

0.72

0.72

0.41

0.41

0.75

0.75

0.47

0.47

Socioeconomic Status

 Most Disadvantaged

0.85

0.86

0.44

0.45

0.83

0.84

0.54

0.56

 2

0.64

0.65

0.41

0.41

0.75

0.76

0.48

0.49

 3

0.82

0.83

0.39

0.38

0.71

0.72

0.46

0.47

 4

0.65

0.66

0.38

0.37

0.66

0.66

0.43

0.43

 Least Disadvantaged

0.59

0.59

0.38

0.38

0.60

0.61

0.41

0.41

Year of birth

  < 1950

0.78

0.79

0.66

0.69

0.76

0.76

0.76

0.79

 1950–1979

0.68

0.69

0.36

0.36

0.70

0.70

0.42

0.42

 1980+

0.73

0.74

0.29

0.27

0.75

0.76

0.31

0.3

  1. aResults using the gold standard benchmark