Table 1 Individual and regional characteristics by place of death of individuals aged 66 or older who died in 2010
From: Dying among older adults in Switzerland: who dies in hospital, who dies in a nursing home?
Characteristics | Hospital | Nursing home | Total institutions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | Column % | Row% | N | Column % | Row % | N | Column % | |
Sex | ||||||||
 Male | 10,310 | 54.0 | 59.0 | 7,247 | 33.0 | 41.3 | 17,557 | 42.5 |
 Female | 8,833 | 46.1 | 37.2 | 14,885 | 67.3 | 63.0 | 23,718 | 57.5 |
Age | ||||||||
 66–70 | 2,353 | 12.3 | 82.0 | 520 | 2.3 | 18.1 | 2,873 | 7.0 |
 71–75 | 2,815 | 15.0 | 76.0 | 899 | 4.1 | 24.2 | 3,714 | 9.0 |
 76–80 | 3,814 | 20.0 | 65.0 | 2,082 | 9.4 | 35.3 | 5,896 | 14.3 |
 81–85 | 4,427 | 23.1 | 50.2 | 4,389 | 20.0 | 50.0 | 8,816 | 21.4 |
 86–90 | 3,736 | 19.5 | 36.0 | 6,639 | 30.0 | 64.0 | 10,375 | 25.1 |
 91+ | 1,998 | 10.4 | 21.0 | 7,603 | 34.4 | 79.2 | 9,601 | 23.3 |
Language regiona | ||||||||
 German | 12,786 | 67.0 | 44.0 | 16,529 | 75.0 | 56.4 | 29,315 | 71.0 |
 French | 5,173 | 27.0 | 53.4 | 4,516 | 20.4 | 47.0 | 9,689 | 23.5 |
 Italian | 1,184 | 6.2 | 52.1 | 1,087 | 5.0 | 48.0 | 2,271 | 5.5 |
Urbanicitya | ||||||||
 Urban | 6,621 | 35.0 | 45.1 | 8,045 | 36.3 | 55.0 | 14,666 | 35.5 |
 Peri-urban | 8,183 | 43.0 | 49.4 | 8,372 | 38.0 | 50.6 | 16,555 | 40.1 |
 Rural | 4,339 | 23.0 | 43.2 | 5,715 | 26.0 | 57.0 | 10,054 | 24.4 |
Swiss-SEP indexa | ||||||||
 1st (lowest) | 4,019 | 21.0 | 46.0 | 4,767 | 21.5 | 54.3 | 8,786 | 21.3 |
 2nd tertile | 7,944 | 41.5 | 46.5 | 9,148 | 41.3 | 53.5 | 17,092 | 41.4 |
 3rd (highest) | 7,180 | 37.5 | 47.0 | 8,217 | 37.1 | 53.4 | 15,397 | 37.3 |
Total | 19,143 | 100.0 | 46.4 | 22,132 | 100.0 | 54.0 | 41,275 | 100.0 |