Abstract
This study reports the agreement of educational achievement obtained from death certificates with self-report among 249 persons. Education was categorized as: less than high school, high school education, and greater than high school education. The overall agreement rate was 84%. Death certificates provided a slight underestimation of educational achievement. The sensitivity and specificity of the death certificate in classifying a decedent as having less than a high school education were both 90%. Educational achievement determined from death certificates has substantial validity, and any misclassification that may occur is likely to be similar across ethnicity and gender groups.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 202-204 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Epidemiology |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1997 |
Keywords
- data collection
- death certificates
- educational assessment
- ethnic groups
- race
- self-report