Journal article
Ecologic Proxies for Household Income
Abstract
BackgroundResearchers often use census-derived measures of socioeconomic status (SES) when personal information is not available. Theory predicts that the resulting misclassification will blunt associations between outcomes and SES and that control for confounding by SES will be less effective. The purpose of this paper was to examine the magnitude of this problem using data from the National Population Health Survey (NPHS).MethodsSubjects were …
Authors
Finkelstein MM
Journal
Canadian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 95, No. 2, pp. 90–94
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
3 2004
DOI
10.1007/bf03405773
ISSN
0008-4263