[The quality of voter registration lists and participation factors during a community survey of elderly people].
Electoral registers are often used to randomly select persons for epidemiological surveys. The importance and the different types of inaccurate informations found in these lists were studied during a survey among an elderly population of 5,161 persons aged 75 and over in Tarn area. Information was found to be inaccurate in 13.7% of the cases (people who have died 3%, moved out of the area 10.5%, inaccurate date of birth 0.2%), this increased with age and with size of the parish. The overall participation was 65.3%. The corrected participation (with exclusion of inaccurate information) was 75.7% and was higher in rural parishes and where the help of local organizations of elderlies was available.
Faliu
B
B
Formation Internationale en Epidémiologie et Statistiques de Terrain Approfondies, Ecole Nationale de Santé Publique, Rennes.
Berthier
F
F
Grosclaude
P
P
Aptel
I
I
Cayla
F
F
Machelard
M
M
Duchene
Y
Y
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015982:Bias; D003256:Community Participation; D003255:Consumer Organizations; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality; D011156:Population Density; D011897:Random Allocation; D012042:Registries / Q000592:standards; D012424:Rural Population
Qualité des listes électorales et facteurs de participation lors d'une enquête communautaire auprès de personnes âgées.