1980
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.70.8.823
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Characteristics of respondents and non-respondents to a mailed questionnaire.

Abstract: 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 n… Show more

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“…The mothers included appear to have been reasonably representative of those giving birth in Oslo, except for a somewhat lower response rate from the area with the lowest socioeconomic status, consistent with other studies using postal questionnaires [7,8]. This may have resulted in underestimation of the use of psychotropic drugs, tobacco and alcohol.…”
Section: Representativity and Validitysupporting
confidence: 74%
“…The mothers included appear to have been reasonably representative of those giving birth in Oslo, except for a somewhat lower response rate from the area with the lowest socioeconomic status, consistent with other studies using postal questionnaires [7,8]. This may have resulted in underestimation of the use of psychotropic drugs, tobacco and alcohol.…”
Section: Representativity and Validitysupporting
confidence: 74%
“…those attending for screening being selectively different from non-attendees. It is widely accepted that as the response rate increases there is greater probability that the sample is representative of the underlying population [11]. The overall response rate for participants in our study was high (70.1%).…”
Section: Fig 1 Distribution Of Vertebral Fractures According To Vermentioning
confidence: 66%
“…40 The HPFS commenced in 1986 when 51,529 male health professionals agreed to join a similarly designed prospective cohort analysis. 41 Participants were monitored using biennial questionnaires covering health status, lifestyle tendencies, and dietary habits.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%