Steenland K, Beaumont J
J Occup Med. 1984 Apr;26(4):288-96.
To assess the accuracy of occupation and industry data on death certificates, we compared the known occupation and industry of 3,789 individuals with information on their death certificates. All individuals were members of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health cohort studies and their occupation and industry were known from personnel or union records. We focused our analysis on 2,198 long-term workers who had 10 or more years of work experience (average, 18 years). Our principal finding was that for the long-term workers in our sample, the probability of the known occupation being listed on their death certificates was 64.7% (SE = 1.1) (for white workers this figure was 73.5% (SE = 1.2). Furthermore, for the long-term workers the probability of the plant or industry being named on their death certificates was 70.1% (SE = 1.2). Women and non-whites had lower matching rates. For women the probability of a matched listing was 45.1% for occupation and 60.4% for industry. For nonwhites, it was only 30.1% for occupation and 49.2% for industry. Our results for white long-term workers generally agree with the results of previous investigators who have used different methods.
为评估死亡证明上职业和行业数据的准确性，我们将3789名个体已知的职业和行业与他们死亡证明上的信息进行了比较。所有个体均为美国国家职业安全与健康研究所队列研究的成员，其职业和行业可从人事或工会记录中得知。我们将分析重点放在2198名有10年或更长工作经验（平均18年）的长期工人身上。我们的主要发现是，对于我们样本中的长期工人，其死亡证明上列出已知职业的概率为64.7%（标准误=1.1）（白人工人这一数字为73.5%（标准误=1.2））。此外，对于长期工人，其死亡证明上提及工厂或行业的概率为70.1%（标准误=1.2）。女性和非白人的匹配率较低。对于女性，职业匹配列出的概率为45.1%，行业为60.4%。对于非白人，职业仅为30.1%，行业为49.2%。我们对白人长期工人的研究结果总体上与之前使用不同方法的研究者的结果一致。
