The accuracy of address coding and the effects of coding errors

Health and Place

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 293-298

  Kravets, Nataliya ^a   Hadden, Wilbur C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Address matching; Geocoding; Geographic information systems

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; HOUSING; URBAN PLANNING; ZONING SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; CODING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSING; INTERVIEW; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 33751013297     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2005.08.006     Document Type: Article

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