Antidepressant use among children and adolescents in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

<p>Dataset consists of 3 files:</p> <ol> <li>drug_use.csv</li> <li>census.csv</li> <li>drug_names.csv</li> </ol> <p>Drug and census data&nbsp;were derived from the following national&nbsp;resources in the public domain:</p> <p><strong>Drug statistics data:</strong></p> <ul> <li>https://sdb.socialstyrelsen.se/if_lak/val.aspx&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(download date: 24.10.2018)</li> <li>http://www.norpd.no/&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (download date:&nbsp;24.10.2018)</li> <li>http://www.medstat.dk/&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(download date: 10.01.2018)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Census data:</strong></p> <ul> <li>https://statistikbanken.dk&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;(download date: 24.10.2018)</li> <li>https://www.ssb.no/&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;(download date: 24.10.2018)</li> <li>http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(download date: 10.01.2018)</li> </ul> <p>The source data owners&nbsp;take no&nbsp;responsibily&nbsp;for interpretation or analysis of data performed by third parties. Source data owners should be attributed when data are used. Consult data owners websites for details about attribution.</p> <p><strong>File descriptions:</strong></p> <p>drug_use.csv</p> <p>contains aggregated information about the number of unique users and the&nbsp;amount (measured in drug daily dose - DDD). Drugs are identified by ATC codes&nbsp;and counts are grouped by the following categorical variables:</p> <p>country (DK, NO, SE)<br> year (2007 - 2017)<br> agegroup (5-9, 10-14, 15-19)<br> sex (F, M)</p> <p>The variables users_pr_1000 and ddd_pr_1000 are the results of dividing the variables n_users and ddd by the total population size in that country, year, agegroup and sex category. These census informations are also available in the census.csv file<br> &nbsp;</p> <p>census.csv contains census data for each country grouped by sex and age. Use this file if you want to calculate population denominators for alternative aggregations of data in the drug_use.csv file</p> <p>drug_names.csv provides the drug name associated to each ATC code</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>