We have the data!

After a year of efforts, inquiries, phone calls, requests, negotiations, we have bought data from the Central Statistical Office on people who received social assistance benefits between 2011 and 2022. The analyses we will be able to make will have many limitations, and conclusions will have to be subject to many caveats, but nevertheless it …

Where is the data coming from?

Studying homeless mortality means obtaining data on mortality for the subpopulation of people experiencing homelessness. In theory, this could be done in two different ways: However, the problem is that the death register does not include homelessness status and homelessness databases do not record deaths. Linking different registers could be a solution. We look at …