The driver's license list as a population-based sampling frame in Iowa.
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.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001334:Automobile Driving; D003710:Demography; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007484:Iowa / Q000453:epidemiology; D008004:Licensure / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012494:Sampling Studies