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Table 1 Variables, data sources and number of observations

From: Relationship of place of death with care capacity and accessibility: a multilevel population study of system effects on place of death in Norway

Level

Variable

Source

N (2003–2011)

Individual

PoD (Hospital, Home or Nursing home)

NCoDR

351,907 (2465 missing higher-level variables)

Predisposing

Age (six groups)

Gender

Enabling

 

Analyses: 100*20% samples

Marital status (four groups)

Need

CoD (six groups)

Municipal

Population characteristics (context)

SSB

423–428 (excluding municipalities with missing data)

- Death rate (per 1000 population)

- Age 67–79, 80–89 and 90+ years (% in total population)

- Married (% in population aged 18+)

- Female employment (> 30 h/week) (% in female population aged 16–66 years)

- Population size (five dummy groups)

Accessibility

(Travel time to hospital - own data)

 

- Travel time to municipal centre

- Travel time to local hospital

- Travel time to local+ hospital (hospital with additional functions)

- Travel time to regional hospital

Capacity

- Nurses in LTC (FTP per 100 population aged 67+ years)

- Relative size home care (% of total LTC labour costs)

- Nursing home beds (per 100 population aged 80+ years)

Hospital district

Capacity

SSB

43

- Hospital beds (somatic beds, per 1000 population)

  1. CoD cause of death, FTP full-time positions, LTC long-term care, NCoDR Norwegian Cause of Death Registry, PoD place of death, SSB Statistics Norway