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- Title
JEMs and incompatible occupational coding systems: effect of manual and automatic recoding of job codes on exposure assignment.
- Authors
Koeman, Tom; Offermans, Nadine S M; Christopher-de Vries, Yvette; Slottje, Pauline; Van Den Brandt, Piet A; Goldbohm, R Alexandra; Kromhout, Hans; Vermeulen, Roel
- Abstract
In epidemiological studies, occupational exposure estimates are often assigned through linkage of job histories to job-exposure matrices (JEMs). However, available JEMs may have a coding system incompatible with the coding system used to code the job histories, necessitating a translation of the originally assigned job codes. Since manual recoding is usually not feasible in large studies, this is often done by use of automated crosswalks translating job codes from one system to another. We set out to investigate whether automatically translating job codes led to different exposure estimates compared with those resulting from manual recoding using the original job descriptions.
- Publication
The Annals of occupational hygiene, 2013, Vol 57, Issue 1, p107
- ISSN
1475-3162
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/annhyg/mes046