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Volume
8: No. 3, May 2011
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Misclassification of Survey Responses
and Black-White Disparity in Mammography Use, Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System, 1995-2006
| Year |
White, % |
Black, % |
| Age-Adjusted |
Final-Adjusted |
Age-Adjusted |
Final-Adjusted |
| 1995 |
70.0 |
54.3 |
69.8 |
40.9 |
| 1996 |
70.6 |
55.2 |
71.9 |
45.4 |
| 1997 |
71.5 |
56.7 |
73.1 |
48.1 |
| 1998 |
73.0 |
59.4 |
73.2 |
48.2 |
| 1999 |
74.7 |
62.3 |
74.2 |
50.3 |
| 2000 |
77.0 |
66.1 |
77.9 |
58.6 |
| 2001 |
77.0 |
66.0 |
78.1 |
58.8 |
| 2002 |
76.9 |
65.9 |
78.2 |
59.1 |
| 2003 |
75.9 |
64.3 |
77.0 |
56.6 |
| 2004 |
75.0 |
62.6 |
75.8 |
54.0 |
| 2005 |
75.8 |
64.0 |
76.9 |
56.3 |
| 2006 |
76.6 |
65.4 |
77.9 |
58.5 |
Figure. Age-adjusted and final-adjusted estimates for
mammography use among white and black women, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System, 1995-2006. Data refer to women who reported having a mammogram within
the past 2 years. Final-adjusted estimates were obtained by adjusting the age-adjusted estimates
for misclassification using the following formula with race-specific specificity
(sp) and sensitivity (se) (white se = .97, sp = .62; black se = .97, sp = .49):
(estimated
prevalence − 1 + sp) / (se + sp −
1). See formula in Methods. Percentages for 2001, 2003, and 2005 are the
averages of the previous and following years. The Healthy People 2010
goal was 70%.
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