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Recall bias or lie bias might have led to inaccuracies, leading to misclassification of income and socioeconomic class.
To minimise potential misclassification of income or amenability associated with serious underlying disease, we also analysed income differences excluding patients resident in long-term institutions.
However, misclassification of income may have been mitigated by having participants select their income from four categories in the telephone interview compared to an open-ended question.
This may be due to misreporting or misclassification of income by study participants, as a single question is often considered inadequate to measure income precisely.
These findings are consistent with studies in which potential misclassification of income was investigated by comparing individual versus area-level measures of socioeconomic status, and that have suggested poor agreement between self-reported household income and census tract income [ 2, 12, 13, 25].
Prior studies have investigated misclassification of income and other socio-economic variables by comparing individual versus area-level survey responses for small samples of the population[ 8, 9] and by comparing survey-based measures for different sized census areas[ 10, 11].
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We used DA-level income as a proxy measure for individual-level income, which may have attenuated the association between individual income and CRC screening due to the misclassification of a few individual's actual income.
PROFILE-history of income taxation.
"Security of income against uncertainty.
It's source of income".
Remember the "tiers" of income?
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