Sorlie P D, Johnson N J
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Epidemiology. 1996 Jul;7(4):437-9. doi: 10.1097/00001648-199607000-00017.
We compared education as recorded on the death certificate with education ascertained before death from a household survey of 10,423 persons age 25 years or more who died in 1989. There was a tendency for the decedent's education to be reported at a higher level on the death certificate than at baseline. Of those who were reported as high school graduates on the death certificate, 38% reported that they had less than a high school education at baseline. The bias was more pronounced in older than younger decedents.
我们将死亡证明上记录的教育程度与通过对1989年死亡的10423名25岁及以上人群进行的家庭调查在死亡前确定的教育程度进行了比较。死亡证明上报告的死者教育程度往往高于基线水平。在死亡证明上被报告为高中毕业生的人中，38%的人在基线时报告他们的教育程度低于高中。这种偏差在老年死者中比在年轻死者中更为明显。
