Comparability of Mortality Estimates from Social Surveys and Vital Statistics Data in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Social surveys prospectively linked with death records provide invaluable opportunities for the study of the relationship between social and economic circumstances and mortality. Although survey-linked mortality files play a prominent role in U.S. health disparities research, it is unclear how well mortality estimates from these datasets align with one another and whether they are comparable with U.S. vital statistics data. We conduct the first study that systematically compares mortality estimates from several widely-used survey-linked mortality files and U.S. vital statistics data. Our results show that mortality rates and life expectancies from the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality Files, Health and Retirement Study, Americans' Changing Lives study, and U.S. vital statis

SUBMITTER: Brown DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6541424 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature