Agreement in Occupational Exposures Between Men and Women Using Retrospective Assessments by Expert Coders.

ABSTRACT: Objectives:To estimate the level of agreement and identify notable differences in occupational exposures (agents) between men and women from retrospective assessments by expert coders. Methods:Lifetime occupational histories of 1657 men and 2073 women from two case-control studies, were translated into exposure estimates to 243 agents, from data on 13882 jobs. Exposure estimates were summarized as proportions and frequency-weighted intensity of exposure for 59 occupational codes by sex. Agreement between metrics of exposure in men's and women's jobs was determined with intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) and weighted Kappa coefficients, using as unit of analysis ('cell') a combination of occupational code and occupational agent. 'Notable' differences between men and women were identi

SUBMITTER: Lacourt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6775225 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature