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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2022 May 21;58(5):711–721. doi: 10.1007/s00127-022-02300-3

Table 1.

Register data used in the study

Data Element Register Years Variables
Neighbourhood characteristics Statistics Denmark registers 1986-1998 Income, unemployment, education, and welfare benefits at the parish level
Baseline characteristics of individuals Statistics Denmark registers 1986-1998 Country of origin, year of arrival, age, sex, marital status, and number of children
Inpatient psychiatric hospital stays Psychiatric Central Register 1986-2019, February ICD-8 and -10 and diagnosis dates
Contacts with outpatient psychiatric clinics and psychiatric emergency care units Psychiatric Central Register 1995-2019, February ICD-8 and -10 and diagnosis dates
Prescription of psychiatric medications Prescription Drug Register 1995-2019, June Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical codes and dates of prescription redemption

Abbreviation: ICD International Classification of Diseases

Note: Due to changes in the reporting standards for the patient registers we had access to a shorter follow-up time for the Psychiatric Central Register than the Prescription Drug Register.