Understanding Society User Support

Dear Understanding Society Team,

In US death information is available via the variables dcsedfl_dv (respondent reported deceased) and dcsedw_dv (wave respondent deceased). This means death info is only on the wave-level available and some deaths could be missed.

For linked health data
https://ukllc.ac.uk/datasets
which should be also valid for the Understanding Society COVID-19 survey:
death info and date should be available from Civil Registrations of Deaths (England & Wales)
If a respondent has permitted health data linkage (info stored in ch_cvhlthlink):
For US data linked via the Covid survey death info and date should be available for England after the health data linkage permission date (but not before the permission date because the respondent has already died and cannot given permission anymore).

Is this linked data similar/identical to what is described In linked HES-ONS mortality data?
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-tools-and-services/data-services/linked-hes-ons-mortality-data