Table 1.
Data Element | Register | Years | Variables |
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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.