James M Lepkowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 170807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Lepkowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lepkowski |
| SIGNATURE | LEPKOWSKI J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 352 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Evaluating the Demographic and Health Surveys Mode Switch From Papi to Capi
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have been carried out in over 90 countries since 1984, as interviewer administered household surveys conducted initially by paper and pencil interviews (PAPI). Computer assisted personal interviews (CAPI) were introduced in the 2004 Peru DHS, and since then numerous countries have also switched. However, DHS randomized mode comparisons have been limited. The 2018 Sixth Turkey DHS was conducted using CAPI b…
Exploring the Feasibility of Mail Surveys in Urban China
While mail surveys are common in many developed countries, it is still a new method in other, often less-developed countries. This study explores the feasibility of mail surveys in urban China. We conducted an experiment manipulating delivery method (regular mail vs. courier delivery service) and incentive payment (prepaid vs. no incentive) using an area-probability sample of 2,400 households in Shanghai. Concerns about the effectiveness of prepa…
Percentage and severity of periodontal diseases in Turkish adults aged 35+ years, 2009‐10
Periodontal diseases in Turkish adults are highly prevalent. A tailored common risk factor health promotion program is recommended to reduce the burden of periodontal infection in Turkey
Psychological distress among Ugandan adolescents living with HIV
HIV infection increases the risk of psychological distress among adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV), which, in turn, increases risky behaviours such as medication non-adherence, substance use, and sexual risk-taking. The majority of studies on psychological distress among ALHIV have been conducted in high-income countries; data on the prevalence and correlates of psychological distress among ALHIV in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are scarce, yet over…
Development of a Psychosocial Distress Measure for Ugandan Adolescents Living with HIV
Prenatal Care and Delivery Room Staff Attitudes Toward Research and The National Children’s Study
Estimating Regression Standard Errors with Data from the Current Population Survey's Public Use File
This study examines whether reasonable standard errors for multivariate models can be calculated using the public use file of the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC). We restrict our analysis to the 2003 CPS ASEC and model three dependent variables at the individual level. income, poverty, and health insurance coverage. We compare standard error estimates performed on the CPS ASEC public use file with thos…
Unstable Inferences? An Examination of Complex Survey Sample Design Adjustments Using the Current Population Survey for Health Services Research
Statistical analysis of the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement is used widely in health services research. However, the statistical evidence cited from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is not always consistent because researchers use a variety of methods to produce standard errors that are fundamental to significance tests. This analysis examines the 2002 Annual Social and Economic Supplement's (ASEC) estimates o…
Social and Physical Environments and Disparities in Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
The Healthy Environments Partnership (HEP) is a community-based participatory research effort investigating variations in cardiovascular disease risk, and the contributions of social and physical environments to those variations, among non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic residents in three areas of Detroit, Michigan. Initiated in October 2000 as a part of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' Health Disparities…
Telephone Service Interruption Weighting Adjustments for State Health Insurance Surveys
Telephone Service Interruption Weighting Adjustments for State Health Insurance Surveys
Many states rely on telephone surveys to produce estimates of uninsurance. To the extent that people in households without telephones differ from those living in households with telephones, estimates will be biased due to lack of coverage of those in households without telephones. We find the disparity in estimates of uninsurance in the Current Population Survey (all people vs. those living in households without telephones) shows a similar associ…
Ethnicity or race, area characteristics, and sexual partner choice among American adolescents
The aim of this paper is to examine the association of individual demographic variables and area characteristics with the characteristics of sexual partners of American adolescents. Data for the study were drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The data indicate that the community characteristics of ethnic or racial composition of the population and region were most strongly related to the ethnicity or race of the partne…
The Current Efficiency of List-Assisted Telephone Sampling Designs
List-assisted random digit dialing (RDD) designs became popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Work done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the University of Michigan in 1993 resulted in the development of the underlying theory for these designs as well as the evaluation of various alternative sampling plans to optimize the method. Recent research to reevaluate these designs in light of the significant changes in the telephone system over …
Characteristics of Adolescents' Sexual Partners and Their Association with Use of Condoms and Other Contraceptive Methods
CONTEXT: While a number of studies have examined the association between individuals' characteristics and their contraceptive use, few studies have examined the influence of partners' characteristics on individuals' contraceptive use. METHODS: Using nationally representative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, multiple logistic analyses were conducted to identify associations between the demographic characteristics of …
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults
Socioeconomic Factors, Health Behaviors, and Mortality
CONTEXT: A prominent hypothesis regarding social inequalities in mortality is that the elevated risk among the socioeconomically disadvantaged is largely due to the higher prevalence of health risk behaviors among those with lower levels of education and income. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the degree to which 4 behavioral risk factors (cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, sedentary lifestyle, and relative body weight) explain the observed associati…
Effects of a Prepaid Nonmonetary Incentive on Response Rates and Response Quality in a Face-to-Face Survey
Journal Article EFFECTS OF A PREPAID NONMONETARY INCENTIVE ON RESPONSE RATES AND RESPONSE QUALITY IN A FACE-TO-FACE SURVEY Get access DIANE K. WILLIMACK, DIANE K. WILLIMACK DIANE K. WILLIMACK is a survey methodologist at the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. HOWARD SCHUMAN is professor of sociology and research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. BETH-ELLEN PE…
The Social Stratification of Aging and Health
The way health varies with age is importantly stratified by socioeconomic status (SES)--specifically, education and income. Prior theory and cross-sectional data suggest that among higher SES persons the onset of health problems is usually postponed until rather late in life, while health declines are prevalent in lower SES groups by middle age. Thus, SES differences in health are small in early adulthood, but increase with age until relatively l…
Commercial Residential Telephone Lists
The use of a commercial file of listed residential telephone numbers can improve the efficiency of samples drawn for telephone surveys. The extent of this improvement depends, however, upon characteristics of the file that are usually not available to the user. This paper addresses the problem by examining the characteristics of commercial files both at the national level and for particular localities that vary by size and geography
HMO Marketing and Selection Bias
The research evidence indicates that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) participating in the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) At-Risk Program tend to experience favorable selection. Although favorable selection might result from patient decisions, a common conjecture is that it can be induced by HMOs through their marketing activities. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between HMO marketing stra…
Selection Bias in Tefra At-Risk HMOs
The issue of selection bias was investigated using data from 22 HMOs who are enrolling Medicare beneficiaries under Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) at-risk contracts. The study differs from previously published analyses of this issue in that it deals with the current Medicare risk program (TEFRA) rather than with earlier Demonstration Programs; as an indicator of selection bias, it utilizes beneficiary functional health s…
Comorbidity and Its Impact on Disability
Older people often suffer from comorbidity, or several chronic conditions simultaneously. Disability rises rapidly as the number of chronic conditions grows, although very ill people who acquire another condition experience attenuated increases. High prevalence conditions such as arthritis tend to have a low or occasionally moderate impact for community residents, while low prevalence ones such as osteoporosis have a high impact; paired condition…
Strategies for the Analysis of Imputed Data From a Sample Survey
Missing data in sample surveys is virtually unavoidable, whether it is an entire unit that is missing or only an item for a responding unit. Compensation for unit nonresponse is usually made through the assignments of weights to responding units; for item nonresponse, the compensation often is by an imputation procedure. This paper reviews the extent of missing data in a large federal survey, the National Medical Care Utilization and Expenditure …
Using Dual Frame Designs to Reduce Nonresponse in Telephone Surveys
Journal Article USING DUAL FRAME DESIGNS TO REDUCE NONRESPONSE IN TELEPHONE SURVEYS Get access MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Research Scientist in the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBERT M. GROVES, ROBERT M. GROVES Associate Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Analysis of survey data challenged
Analysis of survey data challenged. W F Calhoun, J C Thornton, H Smith, Jr, J M Lepkowski, and B M BrockCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.72.2.213-a Published Online: November 15, 2011
The Social Stratification of Aging and Health
The way health varies with age is importantly stratified by socioeconomic status (SES)--specifically, education and income. Prior theory and cross-sectional data suggest that among higher SES persons the onset of health problems is usually postponed until rather late in life, while health declines are prevalent in lower SES groups by middle age. Thus, SES differences in health are small in early adulthood, but increase with age until relatively l…
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults
Using Dual Frame Designs to Reduce Nonresponse in Telephone Surveys
Journal Article USING DUAL FRAME DESIGNS TO REDUCE NONRESPONSE IN TELEPHONE SURVEYS Get access MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Research Scientist in the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBERT M. GROVES, ROBERT M. GROVES Associate Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Effects of a Prepaid Nonmonetary Incentive on Response Rates and Response Quality in a Face-to-Face Survey
Journal Article EFFECTS OF A PREPAID NONMONETARY INCENTIVE ON RESPONSE RATES AND RESPONSE QUALITY IN A FACE-TO-FACE SURVEY Get access DIANE K. WILLIMACK, DIANE K. WILLIMACK DIANE K. WILLIMACK is a survey methodologist at the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. HOWARD SCHUMAN is professor of sociology and research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. BETH-ELLEN PE…
The Current Efficiency of List-Assisted Telephone Sampling Designs
List-assisted random digit dialing (RDD) designs became popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Work done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the University of Michigan in 1993 resulted in the development of the underlying theory for these designs as well as the evaluation of various alternative sampling plans to optimize the method. Recent research to reevaluate these designs in light of the significant changes in the telephone system over …
Ethnicity or race, area characteristics, and sexual partner choice among American adolescents
The aim of this paper is to examine the association of individual demographic variables and area characteristics with the characteristics of sexual partners of American adolescents. Data for the study were drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The data indicate that the community characteristics of ethnic or racial composition of the population and region were most strongly related to the ethnicity or race of the partne…
Commercial Residential Telephone Lists
The use of a commercial file of listed residential telephone numbers can improve the efficiency of samples drawn for telephone surveys. The extent of this improvement depends, however, upon characteristics of the file that are usually not available to the user. This paper addresses the problem by examining the characteristics of commercial files both at the national level and for particular localities that vary by size and geography
Analysis of survey data challenged
Analysis of survey data challenged. W F Calhoun, J C Thornton, H Smith, Jr, J M Lepkowski, and B M BrockCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.72.2.213-a Published Online: November 15, 2011
Strategies for the Analysis of Imputed Data From a Sample Survey
Missing data in sample surveys is virtually unavoidable, whether it is an entire unit that is missing or only an item for a responding unit. Compensation for unit nonresponse is usually made through the assignments of weights to responding units; for item nonresponse, the compensation often is by an imputation procedure. This paper reviews the extent of missing data in a large federal survey, the National Medical Care Utilization and Expenditure …
Using Dual Frame Designs to Reduce Nonresponse in Telephone Surveys
Journal Article USING DUAL FRAME DESIGNS TO REDUCE NONRESPONSE IN TELEPHONE SURVEYS Get access MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W. TRAUGOTT Research Scientist in the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBERT M. GROVES, ROBERT M. GROVES Associate Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Comorbidity and Its Impact on Disability
Older people often suffer from comorbidity, or several chronic conditions simultaneously. Disability rises rapidly as the number of chronic conditions grows, although very ill people who acquire another condition experience attenuated increases. High prevalence conditions such as arthritis tend to have a low or occasionally moderate impact for community residents, while low prevalence ones such as osteoporosis have a high impact; paired condition…
Selection Bias in Tefra At-Risk HMOs
The issue of selection bias was investigated using data from 22 HMOs who are enrolling Medicare beneficiaries under Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) at-risk contracts. The study differs from previously published analyses of this issue in that it deals with the current Medicare risk program (TEFRA) rather than with earlier Demonstration Programs; as an indicator of selection bias, it utilizes beneficiary functional health s…
Commercial Residential Telephone Lists
The use of a commercial file of listed residential telephone numbers can improve the efficiency of samples drawn for telephone surveys. The extent of this improvement depends, however, upon characteristics of the file that are usually not available to the user. This paper addresses the problem by examining the characteristics of commercial files both at the national level and for particular localities that vary by size and geography
HMO Marketing and Selection Bias
The research evidence indicates that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) participating in the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) At-Risk Program tend to experience favorable selection. Although favorable selection might result from patient decisions, a common conjecture is that it can be induced by HMOs through their marketing activities. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between HMO marketing stra…
The Social Stratification of Aging and Health
The way health varies with age is importantly stratified by socioeconomic status (SES)--specifically, education and income. Prior theory and cross-sectional data suggest that among higher SES persons the onset of health problems is usually postponed until rather late in life, while health declines are prevalent in lower SES groups by middle age. Thus, SES differences in health are small in early adulthood, but increase with age until relatively l…
Effects of a Prepaid Nonmonetary Incentive on Response Rates and Response Quality in a Face-to-Face Survey
Journal Article EFFECTS OF A PREPAID NONMONETARY INCENTIVE ON RESPONSE RATES AND RESPONSE QUALITY IN A FACE-TO-FACE SURVEY Get access DIANE K. WILLIMACK, DIANE K. WILLIMACK DIANE K. WILLIMACK is a survey methodologist at the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. HOWARD SCHUMAN is professor of sociology and research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. BETH-ELLEN PE…
Socioeconomic Factors, Health Behaviors, and Mortality
CONTEXT: A prominent hypothesis regarding social inequalities in mortality is that the elevated risk among the socioeconomically disadvantaged is largely due to the higher prevalence of health risk behaviors among those with lower levels of education and income. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the degree to which 4 behavioral risk factors (cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, sedentary lifestyle, and relative body weight) explain the observed associati…
Characteristics of Adolescents' Sexual Partners and Their Association with Use of Condoms and Other Contraceptive Methods
CONTEXT: While a number of studies have examined the association between individuals' characteristics and their contraceptive use, few studies have examined the influence of partners' characteristics on individuals' contraceptive use. METHODS: Using nationally representative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, multiple logistic analyses were conducted to identify associations between the demographic characteristics of …
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults
The Current Efficiency of List-Assisted Telephone Sampling Designs
List-assisted random digit dialing (RDD) designs became popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Work done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the University of Michigan in 1993 resulted in the development of the underlying theory for these designs as well as the evaluation of various alternative sampling plans to optimize the method. Recent research to reevaluate these designs in light of the significant changes in the telephone system over …
Ethnicity or race, area characteristics, and sexual partner choice among American adolescents
The aim of this paper is to examine the association of individual demographic variables and area characteristics with the characteristics of sexual partners of American adolescents. Data for the study were drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The data indicate that the community characteristics of ethnic or racial composition of the population and region were most strongly related to the ethnicity or race of the partne…
Telephone Service Interruption Weighting Adjustments for State Health Insurance Surveys
Telephone Service Interruption Weighting Adjustments for State Health Insurance Surveys
Many states rely on telephone surveys to produce estimates of uninsurance. To the extent that people in households without telephones differ from those living in households with telephones, estimates will be biased due to lack of coverage of those in households without telephones. We find the disparity in estimates of uninsurance in the Current Population Survey (all people vs. those living in households without telephones) shows a similar associ…
Social and Physical Environments and Disparities in Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
The Healthy Environments Partnership (HEP) is a community-based participatory research effort investigating variations in cardiovascular disease risk, and the contributions of social and physical environments to those variations, among non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic residents in three areas of Detroit, Michigan. Initiated in October 2000 as a part of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' Health Disparities…
Unstable Inferences? An Examination of Complex Survey Sample Design Adjustments Using the Current Population Survey for Health Services Research
Statistical analysis of the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement is used widely in health services research. However, the statistical evidence cited from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is not always consistent because researchers use a variety of methods to produce standard errors that are fundamental to significance tests. This analysis examines the 2002 Annual Social and Economic Supplement's (ASEC) estimates o…
Estimating Regression Standard Errors with Data from the Current Population Survey's Public Use File
This study examines whether reasonable standard errors for multivariate models can be calculated using the public use file of the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC). We restrict our analysis to the 2003 CPS ASEC and model three dependent variables at the individual level. income, poverty, and health insurance coverage. We compare standard error estimates performed on the CPS ASEC public use file with thos…
Prenatal Care and Delivery Room Staff Attitudes Toward Research and The National Children’s Study
Development of a Psychosocial Distress Measure for Ugandan Adolescents Living with HIV
Psychological distress among Ugandan adolescents living with HIV
HIV infection increases the risk of psychological distress among adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV), which, in turn, increases risky behaviours such as medication non-adherence, substance use, and sexual risk-taking. The majority of studies on psychological distress among ALHIV have been conducted in high-income countries; data on the prevalence and correlates of psychological distress among ALHIV in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are scarce, yet over…
Percentage and severity of periodontal diseases in Turkish adults aged 35+ years, 2009‐10
Periodontal diseases in Turkish adults are highly prevalent. A tailored common risk factor health promotion program is recommended to reduce the burden of periodontal infection in Turkey
Exploring the Feasibility of Mail Surveys in Urban China
While mail surveys are common in many developed countries, it is still a new method in other, often less-developed countries. This study explores the feasibility of mail surveys in urban China. We conducted an experiment manipulating delivery method (regular mail vs. courier delivery service) and incentive payment (prepaid vs. no incentive) using an area-probability sample of 2,400 households in Shanghai. Concerns about the effectiveness of prepa…
Evaluating the Demographic and Health Surveys Mode Switch From Papi to Capi
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) have been carried out in over 90 countries since 1984, as interviewer administered household surveys conducted initially by paper and pencil interviews (PAPI). Computer assisted personal interviews (CAPI) were introduced in the 2004 Peru DHS, and since then numerous countries have also switched. However, DHS randomized mode comparisons have been limited. The 2018 Sixth Turkey DHS was conducted using CAPI b…
Medicine (17 works) · Demography (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Population (10 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)