Danish register data

[tramir]

References and documentation for Danish register data

• Official list of registers available at Statistics Denmark. Most of the registers we have are provided by Statistics Denmark directly. The webpage includes, for each register:
  • a very short description of the content of the register
  • the period of availability
  • a link to a the variable list, which itself include the period of availability for each variable and, for select variables, a link to a page with detailed documentation and codebook
• Official documentation of registers provided by Sundhedsdatastyrelsen (the Danish Health Data Authority). This is a bit messier, but includes much more detailed information for each register and for each variable.
• A special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, which describes many of the Danish registers commonly used in health-related research. All the papers are open-access, quite short, and describe in enough detail the history and structure of the data. Unfortunately, most of the papers do not provide the Danish acronym of the register, but @mdaysal and I can help with that.
• Finally, one of @mdaysal's and my RAs translated the variable lists of some of the main registers. The files are (or will soon be) available in our Dropbox folder, under 2. Data and code\Documentation.

[jzhang722]

This is exactly how I envisioned it! (I'm replying the Github on the github website, and not via email). Not sure if you or Meltem are getting email notifications from this.

[tramir]

Excellent! I’m getting the notifications. I’m replying via email just to check that it also post on Github.

Edit: ugh, it includes the entire text, so we need to make sure to delete the signature and the quoted reply, otherwise it becomes unmanageable...