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Linkage of the National Health Interview Survey to air quality data
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February 2008
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Description:"EPA data for inclusion, and the assignment of pollution exposures for each respondent. The fourth section describes the resulting linked data files, and the fifth section summarizes the report and presents conclusions. Because NHIS respondents do not necessarily live near air pollution monitors and air pollution monitors are not all located near NHIS respondents, the resulting linkage necessarily excludes some survey respondents and some air monitors. Consequently, both the characteristics of the sample and the overall exposure estimates are affected by linkage decisions. As the need to study the effects of environmental pollutants on human health increases, opportunities to combine existing data sources should be explored. Understanding the linkage issues will enhance the strengths and mitigate the limitations of analyses using the NHIS-EPAAnnualAir data files, and it may also improve future linked data files." - p. 1
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Content Notes:"By Jennifer D. Parker, Ph.D., Office of Analysis and Epidemiology; Nataliya Kravets, M.A., NOVA Research Company, Northrop Grumman CITS II Contractor; Tracey J. Woodruff, Ph.D., M.P.H., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the University of California at San Francisco." - p. 1
Also available via the World-Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (571 KB, 32 p.).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 8).
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Pubmed ID:18351156
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Pages in Document:print; iv, 24 p. ; 28 cm.
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Issue:145
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