The driver's license list as a population-based sampling frame in Iowa. | Zendy

Charles F. Lynch | Zendy; Nyla Logsden-Sackett | Zendy; Sandra L. Edwards | Zendy; Kenneth P. Cantor | Zendy

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The driver's license list as a population-based sampling frame in Iowa.

Author(s) -

Charles F. Lynch,

Nyla Logsden-Sackett,

Sandra L. Edwards,

Kenneth P. Cantor

Publication year - 1994

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.84.3.469

Subject(s) - representativeness heuristic , census , license , sampling frame , population , geography , demography , environmental health , sampling (signal processing) , medicine , gerontology , statistics , computer science , mathematics , sociology , filter (signal processing) , computer vision , operating system

Driver's license lists are infrequently used for population-based sampling, presumably because of suspicions of poor population coverage. The 1990 Iowa driver's license list was compared with the 1990 census to evaluate coverage by 5-year age group, sex, resident county, and urbanicity. Coverage exceeded 90% among 15- to 74-year-old men and 15- to 64-year-old women, with uniform coverage by county and county urbanicity group in these age ranges. In Iowa, these lists are convenient and cost-effective and appear to be representative for 25- to 64-year-olds. The representativeness of driver lists in regard to other factors and in other geographic regions deserves further evaluation.

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