Parental education as an indicator of socioeconomic status: Improving quality of data by requiring consistency across measurement occasions

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 16-27

  Aarø, Leif Edvard ^a,b   Flisher, Alan J ^a,c   Kaaya, Sylvia ^d   Onya, Hans ^e   Namisi, Francis S ^a   Wubs, Annegreet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Consistency; Education; Parents; Reliability; Socioeconomic status; South Africa; Survey; Tanzania; validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIV EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PANEL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; PARENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TANZANIA;

EID: 66949151098     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: 16511905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1403494808086917     Document Type: Article

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