Multiple Imputation of Race and Hispanic Ethnicity in National Surveillance Data for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Disease burden of sexually transmitted infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis is often compared across age categories, sex categories, and race and ethnicity categories. Missing data may prevent researchers from accurately characterizing health disparities between populations. This article describes the methods used to impute race and Hispanic ethnicity in a large national surveillance data set.

Methods

All US cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis (excluding congenital syphilis) reported through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System from the year 2019 were included in the analyses. We used fully conditional specification to impute missing race and Hispanic ethnicity data. After imputation, reported case rates were calculated, by

SUBMITTER: Pondo T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11560705 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature