Small effects were found for American Indian/Alaskan Native, with proportionally less proxy-completed responses in this category.
Hence, education level may be a less suitable proxy for socioeconomic status in older participants.
As argued above, "crude deaths" may be a less suitable proxy for health care needs in low-income country settings in the context of health workforce planning.
This may cause CO rates to be a less accurate proxy of meiotic recombination in the mouse genome compared with the human genome.
When the simple, less precise proxy measures of air pollution, traffic indicators, were adjusted for the more precisely determined street noise levels, the estimated effect of traffic might be 'over-adjusted'.
45 Second, the deprivation scores relate to the area location of the general practice and not of the individual's area of residence and therefore may be a less accurate proxy of the individual level of deprivation.
Indeed, none of the studies cited above use direct measures of productivity and therefore have to rely on more or less accurate proxies.
Less sensitive proxies may detect only the severe outcomes, so results may not be generalizable to the whole patient population.
In June the volume of new euro-area bank loans of €1m or less (the best proxy for lending to small firms) was flat compared with the same month a year earlier, and it ticked up in Spain, as it had done earlier in Britain.
We also used VOL-CALPUFF to assess ash concentration at ground level because of its important with regard the presence of fine ash that could be inhaled by the population (assumed here to be 15 micron sized particles or less, as a proxy for PM10).
Eighty-five per cent of interviews were with the spouse, 9% with a parent and 2% or less with other proxy types.
