Thanks for your reply. yes there are various methods
available but i am looking for one that is more practical
and less complicated. Appreciate your comment and yes am
interested to see your work, its a shame you never published
it?!
Cheers
Hora
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>Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:58:11 +0100
>From: debbie sen <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: A question to the list
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Hi Hora
>
>I was advised by Dr Trica Creswell a Public Health
Specialist, based in
>Durham, that if you were going to only use one measure then
attainment of O
>level's or not was the best marker to use. I think she has
a reference for
>this. Would you like me to try and get it? During my PhD I
used post code
>analysis using IMD lower level codes 2004, which takes
population groups
>down to 1000 or less people (See ONS niebourhood statitis),
quite a
>complicated process but worth while.
>
>
>On a different note I undertook a fairly comprehension
study on diabetes and
>breastfeeding 1987 during my MSc, which unfortunately I
didn't get chance to
>publish, but it resulted in some interesting data. If you
are interested?
>
>Debbie Sen
>
>
>
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>> Dear all
>> We are currently doing a retrospective study on
breastfeeding and
>> diabetes. Does any one know of any robust (or a
pragmatic but good
>> enough) measure for social class characterisation? The
data we have
>> access to at the moment
>> are: maternal occupation, partner occupation and age of
completeion of
>> full time education. Can these measures be combined?
>> In my previous studies, I have mainly used what is
commonly in use
>> (the head of household occupation), but would like to
know other
>> people's views on this.
>> Appreciate your views greatly.
>> Thanks
>> Hora
>> Dr Hora Soltani
>> Lead Research Midwife
>> Derby City General Hospital
>> Tel: 01332 785134
>>
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