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Driver’s Licenses as a Source of Data on Height and Weight by Eric M Ossiander; Irvin Emanuel; William O’Brien; Kathleen Malone is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

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We investigated the feasibility of using driver's license records to obtain height and weight data of individuals. First, we linked Washington State driver's license records (DOL) to the state birth files to assess how well driver's licenses can be linked to a public health database. We were able to match 78.4% of mothers and 71.7% of fathers on birth records to driver's license records. Then we assessed the accuracy of DOL height and weight data by comparing them to heights and weights measured on control women enrolled in a cancer etiology study (CES). There is a close relation between CES and DOL heights, but not a close relation between weights. Our results suggest that driver's license files are a good source of information for women's heights, but are not as good for women's weights.

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Author

Eric M Ossiander; Irvin Emanuel; William O’Brien; Kathleen Malone

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1570-677X)

Published

2004

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences (Health Sciences)