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Non-participation modestly increased with distance to the examination clinic among adults in Finnish health examination surveys
Reinikainen, Jaakko; Saarsalmi, Perttu; Härkänen, Tommi; Jousilahti, Pekka; Karvanen, Juha; Männistö, Satu; Tolonen, Hanna (Sage, 2018)Aims: Health examinaton surveys (HES) provide important informaton about populaton health and health related factors, but declining partcipaton rates threaten the representatveness of collected data. It is hard to conduct ... -
Statistical modelling of selective non-participation in health examination surveys
Kopra, Juho (University of Jyväskylä, 2018)Health examination surveys aim to collect reliable information on the health and risk factors of a population of interest. Missing data occur when some invitees do not participate the survey. If non-participation is ... -
Adjusting for selective non-participation with re-contact data in the FINRISK 2012 survey
Kopra, Juho; Härkänen, Tommi; Tolonen, Hanna; Jousilahti, Pekka; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Reinikainen, Jaakko; Karvanen, Juha (Sage, 2018)Aims: A common objective of epidemiological surveys is to provide population-level estimates of health indicators. Survey results tend to be biased under selective non-participation. One approach to bias reduction is ... -
Participation rates by educational levels have diverged during 25 years in Finnish health examination surveys
Reinikainen, Jaakko; Tolonen, Hanna; Borodulin, Katja; Härkänen, Tommi; Jousilahti, Pekka; Karvanen, Juha; Koskinen, Seppo; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Männistö, Satu; Rissanen, Harri; Vartiainen, Erkki (Oxford University Press, 2018)Background Declining participation rates in health examination surveys may impair the representativeness of surveys and introduce bias into the comparison of results between population groups if participation rates differ ... -
Nordic adolescents responding to demanding survey scales in boring contexts : Examining straightlining
Aarø, Leif Edvard; Fismen, Anne‐Siri; Wold, Bente; Skogen, Jens Christoffer; Torsheim, Torbjørn; Arnarsson, Ársæll Már; Lyyra, Nelli; Löfstedt, Petra; Eriksson, Charli (John Wiley & Sons, 2022)Introduction Straightlining, or identical responses across all items within a multi-item scale, is often taken as an indication that responses to all items in a questionnaire are of poor quality. The purpose of this study ...