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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 118, No. 4: 583-591
Copyright © 1983 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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VALIDITY OF WORK HISTORIES OBTAINED BY INTERVIEW FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC PURPOSES

MONA BAUMGARTEN1, JACK SIEMIATYCKI2 and GRAHAM W. GIBBS3

1Department of Epidemiology and Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Present affiliation: Departement de santé communautaire, Ste Justine Hospital, Montreal, Canada
2Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et méde-cine préventive, Institut Armand-Frappier, 531 boulevard des Prairies, Laval-des-Rapides, Quebec H7V 1B7, Canada (address for reprint requests)
3Department of Epidemiology and Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Present affiliation: Celanese Canada Ltd., Montreal, Canada

Baumgarten, M., J. Slemlatyckl (Instltut Armand-Frappler, Laval-des-Rapldes, Quebec H7V 1B7, Canada) and G. W. Glbbs. Validity of work histories obtained by interview for epldemlologlc purposes. Am J Epidemiol 1983;118:583–91.

Many epidemiologic studies of the relationship between occupation and disease depend on job histories obtained by interview from study subjects. A validation study was undertaken to determine the accuracy of job histories obtained by interview, and to examine whether certain characteristics of respondents and of the study design influence reporting accuracy. For 297 subjects interviewed in Montreal between 1979 and 1981 in the context of a case-control study on occupational factors incancer, it was possible to compare the names of reported employers with those recorded in the data bank of the government-run quasi-universal Pension Plan. The comparison was carried out year by year for the 13-year period 1966–1978. For the 13 × 297 person-years studied, 82.0% of reports agreed with the records. The extent of concordance did not differ substantially between subgroups defined by age, education level, or social class, nor was there a measurable difference in the degree of concordance between the first half of the 13-year period and the second half. There was some evidence that the three interviewers obtained Job histories of varying quality.

epldemlologic methods; interviews; occupations; questionnaires; survey methods; validity


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