Deriving household composition using population-scale electronic health record data-A reproducible methodology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physical housing and household composition have an important role in the lives of individuals and drive health and social outcomes, and inequalities. Most methods to understand housing composition are based on survey or census data, and there is currently no reproducible methodology for creating population-level household composition measures using linked administrative data.

Methods

Using existing, and more recent enhancements to the address-data linkage methods in the SAIL Databank using Residential Anonymised Linking Fields we linked individuals to properties using the anonymised Welsh Demographic Service data in the SAIL Databank. We defined households, household size, and household composition measures based on adult to child relationships, and age difference

SUBMITTER: Johnson RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8007012 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature