Multiple Imputation of Missing Race and Ethnicity in CDC COVID-19 Case-Level Surveillance Data.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a disproportionate burden on racial and ethnic minority groups, but incompleteness in surveillance data limits understanding of disparities. CDC's case-based surveillance system contains case-level information on most COVID-19 cases in the United States. Data analyzed in this paper contain COVID-19 cases with case-level information through September 25, 2020, which represent 70.9% of all COVID-19 cases reported to CDC during the period. Case-level surveillance data are used to investigate COVID-19 disparities by race/ethnicity, sex, and age. However, demographic information on race and ethnicity is missing for a substantial percentage of COVID-19 cases (e.g., 35.8% and 47.2% of cases analyzed were missing race and ethnicity information, respectively).

SUBMITTER: Zhang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8967240 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature