Estimates of cigarette smoking from the NJ adult tobacco survey: Real or spurious?

American Journal of Health Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 585-592

  Delnevo, Cristine D ^a   Gundersen, Daniel A ^a   Hrywna, Mary ^a   Wackowski, Olivia ^a   Zu Wallack, Randal S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b ICF Macro   (United States)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; Response rates; Surveillance; Survey bias; Survey methods

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW JERSEY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953939688     PISSN: 10873244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.34.5.8     Document Type: Article

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