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Activity Number:
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231
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
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| Abstract - #301294 |
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Title:
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Reclassification of Socioeconomic Classes for Modeling Mortality from Selected Causes
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Author(s):
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Jay H. Kim*+ and Rong Wei
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Companies:
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National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics
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Address:
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3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD, 20782,
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Keywords:
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Mortality ; Socioeconomic Variables ; Principal Component
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Abstract:
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Instead of constructing socio-economic status (SES) groups using all 14 variables from the 2000 US Census that are considered as measures of social and economic status, we selected the variables that are highly correlated each other and to mortality to redefine SES groups. The redefined SES groups are also expected to be associated with mortality rates of five selected causes of death. Mortality rates for 805 health service areas are calculated from 2001--2005 mortality data file and linked to the SES variables from the census. SAS GLM and PRINCOMP procedures are used in selecting and constructing SES groups. To understand the relationship between mortality and the SES group, race-and-sex adjusted rates and race-and-sex specific rates are reviewed. The results are also compared to a previous study.
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