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Abstract #304628

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Activity Number: 228
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 9, 2005 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #304628
Title: Ecological Correlates of Family Income Nonresponse: An Analysis of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
Author(s): John Pleis*+ and James Dahlhamer
Companies: National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics
Address: 3311 Toledo Road, Room 2319, Hyattsville, MD, 20782, United States
Keywords: nonresponse ; SES ; contextual ; income
Abstract:

The NHIS, an ongoing population-based health survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, has, like many other surveys, relatively high-income nonresponse rates (e.g., 30%) compared with other items. In previous work, we identified a set of respondent and family-level correlates with income nonresponse. However, this initial work was devoid of ecological or social-environmental measures, which have received considerable attention in the health-SES literature. To explore this issue, NHIS inhouse data from 2000--2001 were geocoded with census tract identifiers, allowing us to merge in tract-level contextual data (e.g., median family income/housing value) from the 2000 census. We will use this ecological data in further analyses of income nonresponse. We will incorporate the ecological characteristics identified from the first phase into our previous models of income nonresponse to determine if ecological predictors are associated with income nonresponse after adjustment for respondent characteristics. Results are presented for total nonresponse and nonresponse by subtype (refusals/don't know).

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