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Reconstructing past occupational exposures : how reliable are women's reports of their partner's occupation?
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Tagiyeva, Nara, Semple, Sean, Devereux, Graham, Sherriff, Andrea, Henderson, John, Elias, Peter and Ayres, J. G. (2011) Reconstructing past occupational exposures : how reliable are women's reports of their partner's occupation? OEM Online, Vol.68 (No.6). pp. 452-456. doi:10.1136/oem.2009.052506 ISSN 1470-7926.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oem.2009.052506
Abstract
Objectives Most of the evidence on agreement between
self- and proxy-reported occupational data comes from
interview-based studies. The authors aimed to examine
agreement between women’s reports of their partner’s
occupation and their partner’s own description using
questionnaire-based data collected as a part of the
prospective, population-based Avon Longitudinal Study
of Parents and Children.
Methods Information on present occupation was
self-reported by women’s partners and proxy-reported by
women through questionnaires administered at 8 and
21 months after the birth of a child. Job titles were
coded to the Standard Occupational Classification
(SOC2000) using software developed by the University of
Warwick (Computer-Assisted Structured Coding Tool).
The accuracy of proxy-report was expressed as
percentage agreement and kappa coefficients for
four-, three- and two-digit SOC2000 codes obtained in
automatic and semiautomatic (manually improved)
coding modes. Data from 6016 couples at 8 months and
5232 couples at 21 months postnatally were included in
the analyses.
Results The agreement between men’s self-reported
occupation and women’s report of their partner’s
occupation in fully automatic coding mode at four-, threeand
two-digit code level was 65%, 71% and 77% at
8 months and 68%, 73% and 76% at 21 months. The
accuracy of agreement was slightly improved by
semiautomatic coding of occupations: 73%/73%, 78%/
77% and 83%/80% at 8/21 months respectively. While this
suggests that women’s description of their partners’
occupation can be used as a valuable tool in
epidemiological research where data from partners are not
available, this study revealed no agreement between these
young women and their partners at the two-digit level of
SOC2000 coding in approximately one in five cases.
Conclusion Proxy reporting of occupation introduces
a statistically significant degree of error in classification.
The effects of occupational misclassification by proxy
reporting in retrospective occupational epidemiological
studies based on questionnaire data should be
considered.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Occupations -- Classification, Health surveys, Fathers | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | OEM Online | ||||
Publisher: | B M J Group | ||||
ISSN: | 1470-7926 | ||||
Official Date: | June 2011 | ||||
Dates: |
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Volume: | Vol.68 | ||||
Number: | No.6 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 452-456 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1136/oem.2009.052506 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 December 2015 | ||||
Funder: | Asthma UK |
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