Interviewers' Ratings of Respondents' Health: Predictors and Association With Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Recent research indicates that survey interviewers' ratings of respondents' health (IRH) may provide supplementary health information about respondents in surveys of older adults. Although IRH is a potentially promising measure of health to include in surveys, our understanding of the factors contributing to IRH remains incomplete.

Methods

We use data from the 2011 face-to-face wave of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a longitudinal study of older adults from the Wisconsin high school class of 1957 and their selected siblings. We first examine whether a range of factors predict IRH: respondents' characteristics that interviewers learn about and observe as respondents answer survey questions, interviewers' evaluations of some of what they observe, and interviewers

SUBMITTER: Garbarski D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6748795 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature