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Forgetting to Remember or Remembering to Forget - A Study of the Recall Period Length in Health Care Survey Questions

Kjellsson, Gustav; Clarke, Philip; Gerdtham, Ulf-G - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2013

hospitalization with self-reported hospitalizations of respondents that are exposed to a varying recall period length of one, three … period depends on the objective of analysis. If the objective is an aggregated measure of hospitalization, longer recall …

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Forgetting to remember or remembering to forget: A study of the recall period length in health care survey questions

Kjellsson, Gustav; Clarke, Philip; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - In: Journal of Health Economics 35 (2014) C, pp. 34-46

-reported hospitalization data by comparing registered with self-reported hospitalizations of respondents exposed to recall periods of one … recall period depends on the objective of the analysis. For an aggregated measure of hospitalization, longer recall periods …

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Forgetting to remember or remembering to forget : a study of the recall period length in health care survey questions

Kjellsson, Gustav; Clarke, Philip M.; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - In: Journal of health economics 35 (2014), pp. 34-46

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Improving retrospective life course data by combining modularized self-reports and event history calendars: Experiences from a large scale survey

Drasch, Katrin; Matthes, Britta - 2009

Biografische Kalender (EHC) haben sich als ein nützliches Instrument zur Erfassung retrospektiver autobiografischer Lebensverlaufsdaten erwiesen. Problematisch ist allerdings, dass biographische Kalender nur zu einem gewissen Grad standardisiert sind, was deren Einsetzbarkeit in...

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Are Bruxellois and Walloons more optimistic about their health?

Citoni, Guido - Département d'Économie Appliquée (DULBEA), Solvay … - 2007

Using the data collected for the year 2004 in the Belgian Health Survey, we aim to show that, controlling for all the determinants of self-reported health state, there is a residual effect of geographic location on the self-assessed health, namely a more favourable scoring for individuals that...

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Are people from Brussels and walloons more optimistic about their health?

Citoni, Guido - In: Brussels Economic Review 49 (2006) 4, pp. 311-332

Using the data collected for 2004 in the Belgian Health Survey, we aim to show that, after examining all the elements used in determining a self-reported state of health, geographic location bears considerably on the results of self-assessed health, namely a more favourable scoring was...

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Calibration Estimation under Non-response and Missing Values in Auxiliary Information

Laitila, Thomas; Wang, Lisha - 2015

The calibration approach is suggested in the literature for estimation in sample surveys under non-response given access to suitable auxiliary information. However, missing values in auxiliary information come up as a thorny but realistic problem. This paper considers the consistency of the...

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Moving average stratification algorithm for strata boundary determination in skewed populations

Kareem, Akeem O.; Oshungade, Isaac O.; Oyeyemi, Gafar M.; … - In: CBN Journal of Applied Statistics 06 (2015) 1, pp. 205-217

Moving Average Stratification (MAS) is a new competing and simple algorithm for strata boundary determination in Stratified Sampling. It eliminates arbitrary choice of class interval associated with cumulative square root of frequency method (Dalenius and Hodges Rule (DHR) 1959) and the inherent...

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Identification of a core-periphery structure among participants of a business climate survey

Stolzenburg, Ulrich; Lux, Thomas - 2010

Processes of social opinion formation might be dominated by a set of highly influential agents acting as 'opinion leaders'. Here we explore whether such a perspective could shed light on the dynamics of a well known economic sentiment index. To this end, we hypothesize that the respondents of...

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Encuesta Longitudinal Colombiana de la Universidad de los Andes- ELCA 2013

Bernal, Raquel; Cadena, Ximena; Camacho, Adriana; … - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2012

La Encuesta Longitudinal Colombiana de la Universidad de los Andes tiene por objetivo seguir a lo largo de una década a más de 10 mil hogares en zonas urbanas y rurales en Colombia. Es la primera encuesta longitudinal de esta magnitud en Colombia que permitirá conocer las dinámicas de los...

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