A large amount of information in the 1990 Ontario Health Survey (OHS) was collected from
proxy respondents using questions administered in face-to-face interviews. Can this type of …

Mall and telephone survey methods, with follow-up by other methods, can provide high
response rates. However, it is not clear whether different population groups provide …

Survey reports of the incidence of chronic conditions are considered by many researchers to
be more objective, and thus preferable, measures of unobserved health status than self …

The aim of the present study was to determine the extent to which respondents provided the
same answers to a health-related lifestyle questionnaire in self-and interviewer …

The authors examined the relation between self-reported health status and mortality among
the following racial/ethnic groups: Native Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, blacks, whites …

General self-rated health (SRH) is widely used to study trends and inequalities in population
health. Recently, there has been an increased interest in understanding the measurement …

This paper describes a basic investigation of possible non-response bias in a mail survey.
We compare characteristics of responders and non-responders to a mail survey of health …

Many health status surveys have been designed for mail, telephone, or inperson
administration. However, with rare exception, investigators have not studied the effect the …

Most sociological and epidemiological studies of health status in adulthood rely on reports of
morbidity from respondents to social surveys. This study compares self-reported morbidity …

National Health Interview Survey Page 1 Marcie Cynamon Director, Division of Health Interview
Statistics National Center for Health Statistics National Health Interview Survey National Center …