From: Impact of unlinked deaths and coding changes on mortality trends in the Swiss National Cohort
Variable | Mortality and census records with identical value of variable (%) | ||
---|---|---|---|
SNC linkageϮ | Linkage of unlinked deaths(step1) | Linkage of unlinked deaths(step 2) | |
(n=996,980) | (n=51,002) | (n=5,263) | |
Sex | |||
(% identical) | 99.95% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
Date of birth | |||
(% identical) | 97.1% | 53.2% | 0.3% |
(Difference in days: 25th percentile, median, 75th percentile) | (0, 0, 0) | (0, 0, 0) | (−109, -12, 96) |
Marital status | |||
(% identical) | 92.0% | 79.3% | 55.7% |
(% identical or plausible change*) | 99.7% | 100.0% | 87.9% |
Nationality | |||
(% identical) | 99.1% | 100.0% | 95.9% |
Place of residence | |||
(% identical) | 89.4% | 23.0% | 11.3% |