The National Documentation Project regarding the Elderly (Indicators 1-5)

Summary

Strengths: Questions relate to the different aspects of help, i.e. personal help, practical help or both. Both elderly individuals living in their own home and in a elderly home participate. Weakness: Some response categories include too few respondents to be reported, e.g. for indicators 1, 2 and 3, only the response categories "Satisfied" and "Very satisfied" are reported.

Type of data

Data Source
Survey

Type of Study
Crosssection regular

Data gathering method
Telephone
Face-to-face

Access to data

Conditions of access

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)
Anonymised microdata. Aggregated tables can be extracted from StatBank Denmark: http://www.statbank.dk/statbank5a/default.asp?w=1350

Formats available
Anonymized microdata: SAS Aggregate tables split by region/municipality, age and gender: http://www.statbank.dk/statbank5a/default.asp?w=1350

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Data was collected from 2007-2011 and is scheduled to be collected every second year in the future. In 2011, 9,782 individuals were contacted with 7,484 individuals or 76.5% fully or partially participating.

First year of collection
2007

Stratification if applicable
Recipients of practical and personal help in the home aged 67+

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
National coverage, can be split by region

Age range
Population aged 67 and over

Statistical representativeness
Other, please specify

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
Five specific indicators are included: 1) Experienced quality of the help; 2) stability of the help; 3) number of different caretakers; 4) knowledge of the possibility of choosing between public and private help providers; 5) knowledge of the possibility of flexible help in the home.

Linkage

Standardisation
N.A.

Possibility of linkage among databases
Can be linked to anonymized microdata in the Statistics Denmark registries.

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
N.A.

Breaks
Continuity is broken in the sense that the data was collected annually between 2007 and 2011, and is only collected biannually since 2011.

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
Same questions are asked each year.

Governance

Contact information
Rikke Olsen
Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration
Holmens Kanal 22
1060 Copenhagen K Denmark Phone: (+45) 41 85 10 08
Email: rio(at)sm.dk
Url: http://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/emner/de-nationale-dokumentationsprojekter/aeldre.aspx?tab=ink

Timeliness, transparency
Samples will be selected and interviewed every second year.