Rosamond W D, Tyroler H A, Chambless L E, Folsom A R, Cooper L, Conwill D
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.
Epidemiology. 1997 Mar;8(2):202-4. doi: 10.1097/00001648-199703000-00014.
This study reports the agreement of educational achievement obtained from death certificates with self-report among 249 persons. Education was categorized as: less than high school, high school education, and greater than high school education. The overall agreement rate was 84%. Death certificates provided a slight underestimation of educational achievement. The sensitivity and specificity of the death certificate in classifying a decedent as having less than a high school education were both 90%. Educational achievement determined from death certificates has substantial validity, and any misclassification that may occur is likely to be similar across ethnicity and gender groups.
本研究报告了249人死亡证明上的教育程度与自我报告的教育程度之间的一致性。教育程度分为：高中以下、高中教育和高中以上教育。总体一致率为84%。死亡证明对教育程度略有低估。死亡证明将死者归类为高中以下教育程度的敏感性和特异性均为90%。根据死亡证明确定的教育程度具有较高的效度，任何可能出现的错误分类在不同种族和性别群体中可能都是相似的。
