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Table 2 Persons who died in 2008–09: percentage hospitalised by years prior to death and linkage strategy

From: Optimal strategy for linkage of datasets containing a statistical linkage key and datasets with full personal identifiers

Years prior to death

Full probabilistic model

SLK-581

Basic

Most recent

Most frequent

Any match

%

%

%

%

%

2008-09

75.1

67.8

69.6

69.5

67.8

2007-08 to 2008-09

84.3

76.9

77.9

77.8

76.9

2006-07 to 2008-09

88.4

81.0

81.5

81.4

81.0

2005-06 to 2008-09

90.8

83.5

83.7

83.6

83.5

2004-05 to 2008-09

92.4

85.1

85.0

84.9

85.1

2003-04 to 2008-09

93.5

86.3

85.9

85.8

86.3

2002-03 to 2008-09

94.4

87.3

86.6

86.5

87.3

2001-02 to 2008-09

95.0

88.1

87.2

87.1

88.1

2000-01 to 2008-09

95.4

88.7

87.5

87.4

88.7

  1. SLK: Statistical Linkage Key.