Validity of self-reported versus actual age in Nepali children and young people

• Self-reported age is a potential source of misclassification bias in International Surveys. • We compare objectively recorded age with self-reported age at mean age 11.5 years in 3943 children in rural Nepal. • There was high agreement between actual and self-reported age with an error rate of 7%....

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Autores principales: Heys, M., Candler, T., Costello, A., Manandhar, D.S., Viner, R.M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4994426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27003672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2016.02.014
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author Heys, M.
Candler, T.
Costello, A.
Manandhar, D.S.
Viner, R.M.
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description • Self-reported age is a potential source of misclassification bias in International Surveys. • We compare objectively recorded age with self-reported age at mean age 11.5 years in 3943 children in rural Nepal. • There was high agreement between actual and self-reported age with an error rate of 7%.
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spelling pubmed-49944262016-08-30 Validity of self-reported versus actual age in Nepali children and young people Heys, M. Candler, T. Costello, A. Manandhar, D.S. Viner, R.M. Public Health Short Communication • Self-reported age is a potential source of misclassification bias in International Surveys. • We compare objectively recorded age with self-reported age at mean age 11.5 years in 3943 children in rural Nepal. • There was high agreement between actual and self-reported age with an error rate of 7%. Elsevier 2016-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4994426/ /pubmed/27003672 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2016.02.014 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Heys, M.
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Validity of self-reported versus actual age in Nepali children and young people
title Validity of self-reported versus actual age in Nepali children and young people
title_full Validity of self-reported versus actual age in Nepali children and young people
title_fullStr Validity of self-reported versus actual age in Nepali children and young people
title_full_unstemmed Validity of self-reported versus actual age in Nepali children and young people
title_short Validity of self-reported versus actual age in Nepali children and young people
title_sort validity of self-reported versus actual age in nepali children and young people
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4994426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27003672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2016.02.014
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