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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Epidemiol. 2016 Nov 22;27(2):121–127. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2016.11.003

Table 3.

Consistency in Mortality Status across Sources of Information

Accurint© SSDMF NDI NORC n %
Deceased according to:
FOUR Sources Deceased Deceased Deceased Deceased 280 5%
THREE Sources Deceased Living Deceased Deceased 100 2%
Deceased Deceased Living Deceased 20 0%
Living Deceased Deceased Deceased 10 0%
Deceased Deceased Deceased Living * 0%
TWO Sources Living Living Deceased Deceased 140 3%
Deceased Living Living Deceased 10 0%
Living Deceased Living Deceased * 0%
Deceased Living Deceased Living * 0%
Deceased Deceased Living Living * 0%
Living Deceased Deceased Living * 0%
ONE Source Deceased Living Living Living 60 1%
Living Living Deceased Living 60 1%
Living Living Living Deceased 40 1%
Living Deceased Living Living 20 0%
ZERO Sources Living Living Living Living 4,740 86%

Note: Sample restricted to the 5,470 HSB sophomore sample members who responded to the 1980 HSB survey but not the 2014 survey. Analyses are not weighted. Sample sizes are rounded as per IES Restricted Data security requirements;

*

indicates that the cell rounds to zero.