Julia N Soulakova Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Data agreement, ,Complex survey, ,Reliability, ,respondent type, ,Survey logistic regression
Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Julia N Soulakova is currently working in Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA also interested in different medical diseases and terminologies and also have keen interest in their treatment.
Research Article Open Access
Author(s): Julia N Soulakova and Lisa J Crockett
Consistency and Recanting of Ever-Smoking Status Reported by Self and Proxy Respondents One Year Apart
The study examined consistency of reports concerning current and prior smoking behaviors. Data came from the 2002-2003 Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, where the current smoking behaviors and smoking history were reported by self- and proxy-respondents on two occasions, one year apart. The eversmoking status is reported consistently, overall: Kappa coefficient is 0.78 with the corresponding 95% confidence interval given by (0.77, 0.78). One specific type of inconsistency of prior reports was assessed for respondents who were identified as never smo... view moreĀ»