From: Socioeconomic inequality of diabetes patients’ health care utilization in Denmark
Characteristics | Definitions | Categories |
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Socioeconomics | ||
Highest educational level attained | Highest educational level attained at date of data extraction, based on the main groups in the Danish educational Nomenclature with 13 educational groups based on years of education. | Variable with 3 or 9 categories: 1) Primary education (<11 years) 2) Middle high education (11 to 15 years 3) Higher education (16+ years) 1) Primary education 2) Upper secondary education 3) Vocational education and training 4) Qualifying educational programmes 5) Short cycle higher education 6) Vocational bachelor’s education 7) Bachelor programmes 8) Master programmes 9) PhD programmes |
Income level | Annual gross income 2011 (DKK) | |
Demographics | ||
Gender | Gender | 1) Male 2) Female |
Age | Age in mid-year | Continuous |
Civil status | Marital status | 1) Married or in civil partnership 2) Unmarried 3) Widow or longest living partner 4) Divorced or cancelled partnership |
Ethnicity | Based on registrations in the Central Person Register 2011. | 1) Ethnic Dane 2) Immigrant 3) Descendant |
Region of residence | Residence 2011 in relation to the five Danish regions | 1) ”Capital Region of Denmark” 2) ”Region Zealand” 3) ”Region of Southern Denmark” 4) “Central Denmark Region” 5) “North Denmark Region” |
Urbanity | Residence in type of geographic area in relation to urbanity | 1) City 2) Suburbs 3) Outer areas/country side |
Occupational status | Affiliation to the labour market | 1) Affiliated to the labour market (employed or self-employed) 2) Unemployed (maternal leave, job seeker allowance) 3) Unemployed (unemployment benefit) 4) Education 5) Early retirement 6) Retired 7) Child |
Morbidity | ||
Incident 2011 | Patient diagnosed in calendar year 2011 | 0) Diagnosed in year ≠ 2011 1) Diagnosed in 2011 |
Complication group at present | Complication group at 31st of December 2011 | 1) CG0 2) CG1 3) CG2 |
Complication group at diagnosis | Complication group at diagnosis | 1) CG0 2) CG1 3) CG2 |
Mortality 2011 | Death in 2011 | 0) Alive 2011 1) Death 2011 |