Quality of death rates by race and Hispanic origin: a summary of current research, 1999.

摘要: Objectives This report provides a summary of current knowledge and research on the quality reliability death rates by race Hispanic origin in official mortality statistics United States produced National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). It also quantitative assessment bias origin. identifies areas targeted research. Methods Death are based information deaths (numerators rates) from certificates filed states compiled into national database NCHS, population data (denominators) Census Bureau. Selected studies race/Hispanic-origin misclassification under coverage summarized population. Estimates made separate joint two sources. Simplifying assumptions about stability biases over time among age groups. Original results presented using an expanded updated Longitudinal Mortality Study. Results While numerator denominator tend to offset each other somewhat, all groups show net effects coverage. For white black population, published overstated publications estimated 1.0 percent 5.0 percent, respectively, resulting principally undercounts these census. minority understated approximately as follows: American Indians, 21 percent; Asian or Pacific Islanders, 11 Hispanics, 2 percent. These estimates do not take account differential misreporting race/ethnic