Agreement of latest and longest occupation and industry as reported in the 1980 National Health Interview Survey

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• Personal Author:
  Burnett CA ; Crouse, William E.
• Description:
  The latest and usual occupations and industries for a group of subjects were compared to determine the degree of agreement between the two, for use in epidemiological studies of chronic illnesses. Information on the latest occupation and industry, and the usual occupation and industry were collected as part of the 1980 National Health Interview Survey. The information on the longest job and the lengths of the jobs was collected directly from the persons participating unless they were mentally or physically incapable of answering. Analysis was based on 68,549 persons who provided information on latest occupation or industry. Overall, 68.1 percent of the men had identical codes for occupation with the longest and latest jobs held. For industry the agreement was 69.9 percent. For women, the overall agreement for occupation was 70.5 percent and for industry was 70.3 percent. Statistically, there was a significantly higher percentage of agreement for occupation and industry for black women than for white women. Agreement increased with age for both men and women. The longer the latest job was held the more likely it was to be the usual job. The agreement was over 99 percent for those with more than 20 years in the latest job. Information was provided on the percentage agreement by industry and occupation. The authors conclude that there is sufficient agreement for analyses to use latest occupation or industry in chronic disease surveys instead of usual occupation or industry. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Epidemiology Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Sex Characteristics Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Age-factors Health-surveys Industrial-hazards JOCMA7 NIOSH-Author Occupational-hazards Sex-factors Worker-health
• ISSN:
  0096-1736
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  339-346
• Volume:
  31
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00188361
• Citation:
  J Occup Med 1989 Apr; 31(4):339-346
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1989
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fff6875312fbbb3a16f09bc5fc819421830144340960294cf48c0b20c6c34b7a9699677577ace85d2de1a3d02e0439f57caf5e1553c76e252866f3e3a8eb2613
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