Area Characteristics and Individual-Level Socioeconomic Position Indicators in Three Population-Based Epidemiologic Studies
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Area characteristics and individual-level socioeconomic position indicators in three population-based epidemiologic studies.
PURPOSE There is growing interest in incorporating area indicators into epidemiologic analyses. Using data from the 1990 U.S. Census linked to individual-level data from three epidemiologic studies, we investigated how different area indicators are interrelated, how measures for different sized areas compare, and the relation between area and individual-level social position indicators. METHO...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Epidemiology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1047-2797
DOI: 10.1016/s1047-2797(01)00221-6