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Activity Number:
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390
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #306324 |
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Title:
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Estimation and Reliability Issues of Health Estimates from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for U.S. Counties Contiguous to the United States-Mexico Border
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Author(s):
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Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr.*+ and Machell Town and Jay J. Kim and Sam Notzon and Juan R. Albertorio
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Companies:
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National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics
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Address:
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3311 Toledo Road, Room 3121, Hyattsville, MD, 20782,
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Keywords:
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unbiased estimation ; relative standard error ; relative root mean square error
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Abstract:
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The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a State telephone based survey of the adult civilian non-institutionalized population residing in the United States. Consequently, the BRFSS final weights that are currently available in the data files are designed to produce unbiased estimates of socio-demographic and health characteristics at the State level. In addition to State level BRFSS estimates, there is interest in the health status of adults residing in the 25 U.S. counties contiguous to the United States-Mexico Border Region. The purpose of this paper is to investigate alternative ways of producing border region weights, estimates of BRFSS socio-demographic and health characteristics and their reliability in terms of relative standard error and relative root mean square error.
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