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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Deborah D. Ingram, PhD1, Jennifer D. Parker, PhD2, Nathaniel Schenker, PhD1, and Elizabeth Arias, PhD3. (1) National Center for Health Statistics, 6525 Belcrest Road, Room 790, Hyattsville, MD 20782, (301) 458-4733, ddi1@cdc.gov, (2) Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Statistics, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, (3) Mortality Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, 6525 Belcrest Road, Room 800, Hyattsville, MD 20782
The change in the federal guidelines for collecting information on race and ethnicity has presented many challenges for data collection systems. Of particular concern is that data from the decennial census, which provides population denominators, were collected using the new standard; while birth and death records, the numerators for death rates and other vital statistics, will implement the change over the next several years. Annual reported vital statistics are frequently used in epidemiologic studies, both as the main source of data as well as supporting evidence for more specific research.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) suggested several simple bridge methods to assign multiple race responses, under the new standard, to single race categories, of the old standard. However, multiple race reporting varies by many factors; thus, these initial methods may be insufficient for many users.
This presentation describes the NCHS methodology used to create single race denominators from the 2000 decennial census. Using NCHS’s National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which allows respondents to report more than one race group but asks a follow-up question to obtain a single race category, regression models were developed for each multiple race group using individual and contextual level predictors available on both the NHIS and the Census file. Preliminary 2000 mortality and teen birth rates for the United States will be used to demonstrate the results of the methodology. Methods proposed by OMB will be compared to the NCHS denominators.
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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.