Predicting small area health-related behaviour: A comparison of multilevel synthetic estimation and local survey data

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 931-937

  Twigg, Liz ^a   Moon, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drinking; Health survey for England; Multilevel models; Smoking; Synthetic estimation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

DRINKING; HEALTH RISK; LIFESTYLE; METHODOLOGY; SMOKING;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFESTYLE; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SMOKING;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SMOKING; WALES;

EID: 0036177441     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00065-X     Document Type: Article

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