Selection bias from sampling frames: Telephone directory and electoral roll compared with door-to-door population census: Results from the Blue Mountains Eye Study

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-133

  Smith, Wayne ^a,c   Mitchell, Paul ^b   Attebo, Karin ^b   Leeder, Stephen ^b  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; STATISTICS; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0030980859     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.1997.tb01671.x     Document Type: Article

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