Representativeness of child controls recruited by random digit dialling

Recruiting control subjects who are representative of the population from which the cases are drawn is a challenge in case-control studies

Authors:
Bailey HD, Milne E, de Klerk N, Fritschi L, Bower C, Attia J, Armstrong BK.

Authors notes:
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2010;24:293-302.

Keywords:
representativeness, child controls, recruited by random digit dialling, obtaining a control sample

Abstract:
Recruiting control subjects who are representative of the population from which the cases are drawn is a challenge in case-control studies. This paper examines the performance of random digit dialling (RDD) in obtaining a control sample, and the sample's representativeness of the population with respect to socio-economic stat