Evaluation of reproductive histories constructed by linking vital records
Evaluation of reproductive histories constructed by linking vital records
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1365-3016.1997.tb00799.x
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发表时间：
1997-01-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
McCarthy, BJ
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作者：
Adams, MM;Berg, CJ;McCarthy, BJ
我们使用了140万份1980年至1992年期间在格鲁吉亚提交的胎儿死亡和出生证明，构建了369686条发生在同一名妇女身上的两个或多个生殖事件链。我们使用证书上的信息和在对1311名妇女的采访中独立收集的信息对这些链条进行了评估。总体而言，86.6%的连锁店有预期的事件数量，根据证书上关于以前怀孕的信息。79%的连锁店根据对产妇的访谈，举办了预期数量的活动。观察到的事件链中的数量和预期的数量之间的一致性，无论是从证书或从产妇访谈的数据的基础上，是最大的链与两个或三个事件。出生在格鲁吉亚的母亲比出生在其他地方的母亲更有可能拥有完整的链条。在551391份非关联证明中，48.7%是母亲的第一次生育，40.2%是1980年以前怀孕的妇女的第二次或更多次生育，11.1%是1980年以后怀孕的妇女的第二次或更多次生育。胎儿死亡和活产证明可以建立合理的低水平的低关联和高关联的妊娠史。
We used 1.4 million fetal death and birth certificates filed in Georgia between 1980 and 1992 to construct 369686 chains of two or more reproductive events occurring to the same woman. We evaluated these chains using both information on the certificates and information independently collected in interviews with 1311 women. Overall, 86.6% of the chains had the expected number of events, based on the certificate's information about previous pregnancies. Seventy-nine per cent of the chains had the expected number of events based on the maternal interviews. Consistency between the observed number of events in the chain and the number expected, based either on data from the certificates or from the maternal interviews, was greatest for chains with two or three events. Mothers born in Georgia were more likely to have complete chains than mothers born elsewhere. Among the 551391 non-linked certificates, 48.7% were the mother's first birth, 40.2% were second or higher-order births to women whose previous pregnancy occurred before 1980, and 11.1% were second or higher-order births to women whose previous pregnancy occurred after 1980. Fetal death and livebirth certificates can be linked to construct pregnancy histories with reasonably low levels of underlinkage and overlinkage.