Surname analysis for estimating local concentration of Hispanics and Asians

Predictors of Depression in Aging South Asian Canadians

“…Due to the fact that an exhaustive list of names for the South Asian older adults did not exist, surnames listed in telephone directory was used as the sampling frame. The support for using surnames as the identification keys for locating Asian participants has been well established (Abrahamse et al 1994;Lauderdale and Kestenbaum 2000;Rosenwaike 1994;Tjam 2001).…”

Who Gets Disease Management?

“…We used the patients' last names and addresses to impute race/ ethnicity and median household income via Census block group geocoding and surname analysis using methods described by Fremont et al 13 and Elliott et al 14 . Surname analysis was first used to identify members with a high probability of being Hispanic or Asian; then a Bayesian algorithm was used to impute race/ethnicity using this information and data from the 2000 census at the block group level 15 . Census block groups correspond to a small neighborhood of approximately 1,000 people; median household income was also obtained at the block group level.…”

Intention of Use of Long-Term Care Facilities and Home Support Services by Chinese-Canadian Family Caregivers

“…This method would exclude caregivers who do not own a telephone, those who do not have Chinese surnames, and those who have unlisted their telephone numbers. However, there is also a strong precedent for using ethnic surnames for locating Chinese and other Asian research participants (Abrahamse, Morrison, & Bolton, 1994;Choi, Hanley, Holowaty, & Dale, 1993;Himmelfarb, Loar, & Mott, 1983;Lauderdale & Kestenbaum, 2000;Quan et al, 2006;Rosenwaike, 1994;Tjam, 2001).…”