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Date: 
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Author(s): 
Paul A. Romitti
Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway
William T. Budelier
Charles F. Lynch
Soman Puzhankara
Donna Wong-Gibbons
Jane A. Hoppin
Michael C. R. Alavanja
Journal Title: 
Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health
Abstract: 

In the Agricultural Health Study, information on participant live births was largely provided by female partners of male private applicators. At the Iowa site, such information was available for 13,599 (42.9%) of 31,707 applicators. To improve identification of live births among Iowa participants, we used a probabilistic and deterministic approach to link available demographic data from 31,707 households and information on live births from 13,599 households with 1,014,916 Iowa birth certificates. Record linkage identified 16,611 (93.7%) of 17,719 reported live births and 17,883 additional live births, most (14,411 or 80.6%) not reported due to nonresponse by female partners. This record linkage produced an expanded cohort of live-born children among Iowa participants, which will facilitate improved study of the effects of agricultural exposures, including pesticides, on selected birth outcomes and childhood disease.

Citation: 

Romitti, Paul A., Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, William T. Budelier, Charles F. Lynch, Soman Puzhankara, Donna Wong-Gibbons, Jane A. Hoppin, and Michael CR Alavanja. "Identification of Iowa live births in the Agricultural Health Study." Archives of environmental & occupational health 65, no. 3 (2010): 154-162.