Using geographically referenced data on environmental exposures for public health research : a feasibility study based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)
Sven Voigtländer; Jan Goebel; Thomas Claßen; Michael Wurm; Ursula Berger ...
Background: In panel datasets information on environmental exposures is scarce. Thus, our goal was to probe the use of area-wide geographically referenced data for air pollution from an external data source in the analysis of physical health. Methods: The study population comprised SOEP respondents in 2004 merged with exposures for NO2, PM10 and O3 based on a multi-year reanalysis of the EURopean Air pollution Dispersion-Inverse Model (EURAD-IM). Apart from bivariate analyses with subjective air pollution we estimated cross-sectional multilevel regression models for physical health as assessed by the SF-12. Results: The variation of average exposure to NO2, PM10 and O3 was small with the interquartile range being less than 10µg/m3 for all pollutants. There was no correlation between subjective air pollution and average exposure to PM10 and O3, while there was a very small positive correlation between the first and NO2. Inclusion of objective air pollution in regression models did not improve the model fit. Conclusions: It is feasible to merge environmental exposures to a nationally representative panel study like the SOEP. However, in our study the spatial resolution of the specific air pollutants has been too little, yet.
Year of publication: |
2011
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Authors: | Voigtländer, Sven ; Goebel, Jan ; Claßen, Thomas ; Wurm, Michael ; Berger, Ursula |
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Berlin : DIW |
Subject: | SOEP | Geographically Referenced Data | Feasibility Study | Air Pollution | EURAD-IM | Physical Health | Gesundheit | Health | Sozialforschung | Social research | Umweltbelastung | Pollution | Geographie | Geography | Region | Panel | Panel study | Schätzung | Estimation | Deutschland | Germany |
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freely available
Extent: | Online-Ressource (20 S., 334 KB) graph. Darst., Kt. |
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Series: | SOEP papers on multidisciplinary panel data research / German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), DIW Berlin. - Berlin : DIW, ISSN 1864-6689, ZDB-ID 2403710-2. - Vol. 386 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/150931 [Handle] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009158052