American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 147, No. 7: 704-708
Copyright © 1998 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Adult Female Twins' Recall of Childhood Social Class and Father's Education: A Validation Study for Public Health Research
1 Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA
2 Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA
3 Division of Research, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute Oakland, CA
Reprint requests to Dr. Nancy Krieger, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
To assess recall of childhood socioeconomic position for public health research, the authors conducted a cross-sectional study of 352 adult women twin pairs enrolled in Examination II of the Kaiser Permanente Women Twins Study carried out in 1989–1990 in Oakland, California. Among twin pairs, 91% (95% confidence interval (CI) 89–94%) agreed on their father's educational level and 81% (95% CI 77–85%) on their childhood social class. Recall did not differ by adult socioeconomic position, zygosity, race/ethnicity, or age. Thus, epidemiologic studies can validly use retrospective data on childhood socioeconomic position to study its relation to adult health status. Am J Epidemiol 1998; 147: 704–8.
bias (epidemiology); educational status; health status; life cycle; recall; social class; socioeconomic factors; twin studies
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