Summary measures of occupational history: a comparison of latest occupation and industry with usual occupation and industry.

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• Personal Author:
  Illis WR ; Satariano ER ; Schwartz AG ; Swanson GM
• Description:
  A study was carried out among 5734 persons having incident cancers to assess the utility of using the latest occupational information as a summary of occupational histories. Complete lifetime occupational histories were obtained by telephone interviews for black and white males and females between the ages of 40 and 84 years. Usual industry and occupation were determined by summing the total number of months during which a person was employed in a specific industry or occupation over the entire work history. It was found that 73.6 percent of the records were identical for usual and latest occupation and that 76.6 percent matched for usual and latest industry. White males showed the highest matching percentages of 78.9 and 82.2 percent for occupation and industry, respectively. Matches for occupation and industry were lowest for blacks, females, and persons 40 to 49 years old. Over 90 percent of the records with at least 20 years in latest employment were matches. The authors suggest that due to variations in match rates depending on race and sex, there is a need to evaluate more fully the agreement of latest and usual employment patterns when interpreting the results of large scale occupational surveillance studies. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Men Morbidity Neoplasms Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Sex Characteristics Women
• Keywords:
  Age-factors Biostatistics Cancer-rates Morbidity-rates NIOSH-Grant NIOSH-Publication Occupations Racial-factors Sex-factors
• ISSN:
  0090-0036
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  77
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00175499
• Citation:
  Am J Public Health 1987 Dec; 77(12):1532-1534
• Contact Point Address:
  William R. Illis, MPH, Division of Epidemiology, Michigan Cancer Foundation, 110 E. Warren Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1988
• Performing Organization:
  Epdiemiology Michigan Cancer Foundation 110 East Warren Avenue Detroit, Mich 48201
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19840928
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Public Health
• End Date:
  19940929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:61fcb3982e46adab9755904132f82e4beed35c0cea1ee78a01ebcedffe0bedb26bfbc2e5e645bff6a214cc6e52695aedc6f4a3016459d72a995d31c5a731ac48
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/185372/cdc_185372_DS1.pdf
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