Potential implications of missing income data in population-based surveys: An example from a postpartum survey in California

Public Health Reports

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 753-763

  Kim, Soowon ^a,b   Egerter, Susan ^a   Cubbin, Catherine ^a,c   Takahashi, Eugene R ^d   Braveman, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d California Department of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MARRIAGE; NEWBORN; PARITY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POVERTY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CALIFORNIA; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; POSTPARTUM PERIOD;

EID: 38449103545     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335490712200607     Document Type: Article

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