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- Title
The Driver's License List as a Population-Based Sampling Frame in Iowa.
- Authors
Lynch, Charles F.; Logsden-Sackett, Nyla; Edwards, Sandra L.; Cantor, Kenneth P.
- Abstract
Driver's license lists are infrequently used for population-based sampling, presumably because of suspicions of poor population coverage. The 1990 Iowa driver's license list was compared with the 1990 census to evaluate coverage by 5-year age group, sex, resident county, and urbanicity. Coverage exceeded 90% among 15- to 74-year-old men and 15- to 64-year-old women, with uniform coverage by county and county urbanicity group in these age ranges. In Iowa, these lists are convenient and cost-effective and appear to be representative for 25- to 64-year-olds. The representativeness of driver lists in regard to other factors and in other geographic regions deserves further evaluation.
- Subjects
IOWA; DRIVERS' licenses; POPULATION; DEMOGRAPHIC surveys; STATISTICAL sampling
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1994, Vol 84, Issue 3, p469
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.84.3.469