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Table 3 Descriptive statistics (municipal and hospital district-level variables; years 2003–2011)

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

 

Mean

Standard deviation

Municipal level (N = 3837 [= number of municipalities times number of years])

 Death rate (per 1000 population)

10.5

3.3

 Age 67–79 years (per 100 population)

9.8

2.0

 Age 80–89 years (per 100 population)

4.7

1.3

 Age 90+ years (per 100 population)

0.9

0.4

 Married (per 100 population aged 18+ years)

48.6

4.9

 Female employment (> 30 h/week) (per 100 women aged 16–66) years)

39.1

6.3

 Population 5–99,000

21.0a

 

 Population 10–19,999

13.2a

 

 Population 20–49,999

8.1a

 

 Population 50,000+

3.0a

 

 Travel time to municipal centre (average, minutes)

9.0

6.9

 Hospital located in municipality

12.2a

 

 Travel time to local hospitalb

71.8

68.5

 Travel time to local+ hospitalb

149.5

163.1

 Travel time to regional hospitalb

244.4

181.5

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

3.9

1.4

 Relative size homecare (% labour costs)

49.2

13.8

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

21.5

8.2

Hospital level (N = 387 [= number of hospital districts times number of years])

 Hospital beds (somatic beds, per 1000 population)

2.6

0.8

  1. LTC long-term care
  2. aPercentage, bAverage minutes from municipal centre