Effect of Proxy Responses on Tobacco Use Surveys in Thailand, 2011

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Hsia, Jason ; Puckcharern, Hataichanok ; Town, Machell
• Description:
  Proxy responses are often allowed in household tobacco surveys when all household members are included in a sample. To assess the effect of proxy responses on prevalence estimates, we compared 2 surveys in 2011 that gauged tobacco use in Thailand: the Cigarette Smoking and Alcohol Drinking Survey (SADS) and the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS). Both surveys had similar nonsampling errors and design, but SADS allowed proxy responses and GATS did not. When proxy responses were included in SADS, the prevalence estimate was 10% lower in GATS for men (41.69% in GATS vs 46.55% in SADS) and 18% lower in GATS for women (2.14% in GATS vs 2.61% in SADS). Eliminating proxy responses is recommended to increase accuracy of tobacco-use surveillance.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Brief Cigarette Smoking Family Characteristics Female Health Surveys Humans Male Middle Aged Prevalence Proxy Sex Factors Young Adult

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• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 15
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd15.180158
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  30367719
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6219849
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Thailand
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  15
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3f3202d8d09f74a4c3a483539d944a6d9f1893f4fac4cf66c58b09a216685c4ee8555effb734f3e1094a8e736e1c48186064bb37b410aef28cc026d8aa850cd6
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