Telephone health survey estimates: Effects of nonresponse and sample limitations.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to assess nonresponse error in telephone health survey data based on an address-based sample.

Data sources

Telephone and in-person interviews in Greater Boston.

Study design/data collection

Interviewers attempted telephone interviews at addresses that were matched to telephone numbers using questions drawn from federal health surveys. In-person household interviews were carried out with telephone nonrespondents and at addresses without matching telephone numbers.

Principal findings

After adjusting for demographic differences, only eight of 15 estimates based on the telephone interviews lay within two standard errors of the estimates when data from all three groups were included.

Conclusions

For health surveys of

SUBMITTER: Fowler FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6505407 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature