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Characteristics of respondents and non-respondents to a mailed questionnaire.

Author(s) -

J Barton,

Christopher Bain,

C H Hennekens,

Bernard Rosner,

Charlene Belanger,

A Roth,

F E Speizer

Publication year - 1980

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.70.8.823

Subject(s) - non response bias , residence , specialty , medicine , demography , cohort , population , family medicine , environmental health , gerontology , pathology , sociology

In establishing a cohort of U.S. nurses, an assessment of response bias was made comparing respondents and non-respondents with regard to age, education, state of residence, employment status, field of employment, and major specialty. Overall, the 122,328 respondents (69.7 per cent) and 43,222 non-respondents were quite similar. Together with the reasonable response rate in a homogeneous population, this suggests that estimation of exposure-disease associations is unlikely to be affected by major bias due to non-response.

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