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Title: Smoke Or Fog? The Usefulness of Retrospectively Reported Information About Smoking
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Kenkel, Donald S. Lillard, Dean R. Mathios, Alan D. |
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Smoke Or Fog? The Usefulness of Retrospectively Reported Information About Smoking Addiction 98,9 (September 2003):1307-1314. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2003.00445.x/abstract Cohort(s): Mature Women, NLSY79, Older Men, Young Women Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Addiction; Britain, British; British Household Panel Survey (BHPS); Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Cross-national Analysis; Data Analysis; German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP); Germany, German; National Health Interview Survey (NHIS); Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS); Russia, Russian Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Aims to investigate the reliability and validity of retrospectively reported information on smoking. Design: Nationally representative retrospective data from longitudinal surveys and contemporaneous data from repeated cross-sectional surveys were used. Participants: Adult respondents to three of the four samples of the National Longitudinal Surveys Original Cohort 1966-68; the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979; and various waves of the US National Health Interview Survey. Measurements: Reliability was investigated by calculating kappa statistics for repeated measures of ever-smoking and annual-smoking status. Validity was investigated by comparing smoking prevalence rates generated by retrospective data with contemporaneously measured rates. Findings: Kappa statistics indicated the repeated measures of ever-smoking status show substantial agreement; repeated measures of annual-smoking status show moderate agreement. Retrospective reports on smoking behavior produced prevalence rates that match reasonably well with those from contemporaneous reports of smoking behavior. Conclusions: Retrospective data on smoking can be an important resource for tobacco addiction research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Kenkel, Donald S., Dean R. Lillard and Alan D. Mathios. "Smoke Or Fog? The Usefulness of Retrospectively Reported Information About Smoking." Addiction 98,9 (September 2003):1307-1314.
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