Addressing non-response in health survey data to refine alcohol consumption estimates in Scotland
Lead Research Organisation:
MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Abstract
In terms of health, social and economic costs, alcohol is likely to be the most harmful substance present in society, and is closely linked to mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, affective conduct disorders and suicides. Interventions to tackle alcohol harm require good-quality evaluation, the accuracy of which relies on robust consumption estimates over time. However, the best indicator of consumption - alcohol sales per capita - is only available at an aggregate level.
Alternative measures can be obtained from sources such as national health surveys which are designed to make major contributions to the monitoring of population health. Mental health and the factors that impact on it - among which alcohol consumption is of great importance - are significant components of health surveys. Data obtained are used to formulate and evaluate public health policies aimed at improving and maintaining mental wellbeing, and identify groups (such as deprived communities) at particular risk of ill-health. However, the validity and usefulness of such data rely on the extent to which the samples surveyed are representative of the general population. In UK settings, response to health surveys has declined over the last decade or so, and there is growing concern that data collected are increasingly non-representative of the general population. Currently, the sole attempt to address bias arising from such non-response uses the corrective procedure of inverse probability weighting (IPW) of respondent data based on limited socio-demographic characteristics, and does not capture or adjust for health aspects, such as those related to alcohol, or allow for differences between responders and non-responders in these aspects.
The Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) is based on the Scottish population living in private households. Additionally, there are prospective data available on consenting SHeS participants (92%) from record-linkage to routine hospital admission (SMR) and mortality (GROS) data. Such linkage is rare and provides cost-effective good-quality longitudinal data. SHeS-SMR/GROS are available for the surveys conducted in 1995, 1998 and 2003 (total adult sample size of 23,093), with a maximum follow-up of 15 years. Also available in Scotland we have (unlinked) census information and SMR/GROS data for the general population.
The aim of our proposal is to explore and address non-response bias in the health surveys, with a specific focus on alcohol consumption. This will be achieved by exploiting the existing information available from SHeS-SMR/GROS, and census, SMR and GROS data in the general population. Comparison of alcohol-related mortality and hospital admission rates among the health survey respondents with those in the general population provides a means of identifying differential outcomes - and hence underlying differences in the composition of the groups in terms of behaviours such as alcohol consumption, as well as demographic and socioeconomic factors. Once the extent of such differences has been identified, augmentation of survey data with information on the differences can be achieved through the application of particular statistical methodology, such as advanced multiple imputation and IPW. We shall look separately at each round of the survey to see how the decline in non-response affects the estimates. Small area deprivation data will be sought to obtain more accurate disaggregated estimates of alcohol consumption than are currently derived from health surveys. Additionally, data may be combined with sales data.
The resulting corrected estimates of alcohol consumption in the population will enable superior testing of the effectiveness of interventions such as the introduction of minimum unit pricing and more finely honed services. An advanced weighting procedure will be developed which may be applied to other surveys.
Alternative measures can be obtained from sources such as national health surveys which are designed to make major contributions to the monitoring of population health. Mental health and the factors that impact on it - among which alcohol consumption is of great importance - are significant components of health surveys. Data obtained are used to formulate and evaluate public health policies aimed at improving and maintaining mental wellbeing, and identify groups (such as deprived communities) at particular risk of ill-health. However, the validity and usefulness of such data rely on the extent to which the samples surveyed are representative of the general population. In UK settings, response to health surveys has declined over the last decade or so, and there is growing concern that data collected are increasingly non-representative of the general population. Currently, the sole attempt to address bias arising from such non-response uses the corrective procedure of inverse probability weighting (IPW) of respondent data based on limited socio-demographic characteristics, and does not capture or adjust for health aspects, such as those related to alcohol, or allow for differences between responders and non-responders in these aspects.
The Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) is based on the Scottish population living in private households. Additionally, there are prospective data available on consenting SHeS participants (92%) from record-linkage to routine hospital admission (SMR) and mortality (GROS) data. Such linkage is rare and provides cost-effective good-quality longitudinal data. SHeS-SMR/GROS are available for the surveys conducted in 1995, 1998 and 2003 (total adult sample size of 23,093), with a maximum follow-up of 15 years. Also available in Scotland we have (unlinked) census information and SMR/GROS data for the general population.
The aim of our proposal is to explore and address non-response bias in the health surveys, with a specific focus on alcohol consumption. This will be achieved by exploiting the existing information available from SHeS-SMR/GROS, and census, SMR and GROS data in the general population. Comparison of alcohol-related mortality and hospital admission rates among the health survey respondents with those in the general population provides a means of identifying differential outcomes - and hence underlying differences in the composition of the groups in terms of behaviours such as alcohol consumption, as well as demographic and socioeconomic factors. Once the extent of such differences has been identified, augmentation of survey data with information on the differences can be achieved through the application of particular statistical methodology, such as advanced multiple imputation and IPW. We shall look separately at each round of the survey to see how the decline in non-response affects the estimates. Small area deprivation data will be sought to obtain more accurate disaggregated estimates of alcohol consumption than are currently derived from health surveys. Additionally, data may be combined with sales data.
The resulting corrected estimates of alcohol consumption in the population will enable superior testing of the effectiveness of interventions such as the introduction of minimum unit pricing and more finely honed services. An advanced weighting procedure will be developed which may be applied to other surveys.
Technical Summary
We propose to examine how representative the respondents to the 1995, 1998 and 2003 SHeSs are in terms of alcohol-related hospitalizations (SMR) and deaths (GROS) to inform the improvement of survey-based estimates of alcohol consumption. Linked SHeS-SMR/GROS data (to 2010; maximum follow-up 15 years) will be compared with 1991 and 2001 census records, mortality and hospital admission data for the entire population.
We shall:
1. Compare SHeS-SMR/GROS and general population rates of alcohol-related hospitalizations and deaths;
2. Determine the probability of alcohol-related hospitalization/death in the survey non-responders;
3. Calculate the number of non-respondents for each socio-demographic category (age, sex, area deprivation and health region);
4. Generate observations for non-responders with the corresponding alcohol-related hospitalization and death probabilities in each combination group;
5. Use multiply imputation* - the recommended means of substituting values for missing data items - for unknown alcohol consumption estimates under the assumption that the consumption data are 'missing at random' (MAR)* given socio-demographic category and alcohol-related hospitalization/death;
6. Modify the alcohol consumption imputations to represent likely differences in association between alcohol consumption and alcohol-related hospitalizations and deaths between observed and missing consumption data using a pattern mixture model approach which assumes that the consumption data are 'missing not at random' (MNAR)* given the observed data.
We shall look separately at each survey round to assess the effects of non-response level. An advanced correction procedure will be developed for application to other surveys with record-linkage capacity. Further work may include integration of national sales data to further refine consumption estimates.
* For technical detail, see the Statistical methodology section of 3.3 in the Case For Support document.
We shall:
1. Compare SHeS-SMR/GROS and general population rates of alcohol-related hospitalizations and deaths;
2. Determine the probability of alcohol-related hospitalization/death in the survey non-responders;
3. Calculate the number of non-respondents for each socio-demographic category (age, sex, area deprivation and health region);
4. Generate observations for non-responders with the corresponding alcohol-related hospitalization and death probabilities in each combination group;
5. Use multiply imputation* - the recommended means of substituting values for missing data items - for unknown alcohol consumption estimates under the assumption that the consumption data are 'missing at random' (MAR)* given socio-demographic category and alcohol-related hospitalization/death;
6. Modify the alcohol consumption imputations to represent likely differences in association between alcohol consumption and alcohol-related hospitalizations and deaths between observed and missing consumption data using a pattern mixture model approach which assumes that the consumption data are 'missing not at random' (MNAR)* given the observed data.
We shall look separately at each survey round to assess the effects of non-response level. An advanced correction procedure will be developed for application to other surveys with record-linkage capacity. Further work may include integration of national sales data to further refine consumption estimates.
* For technical detail, see the Statistical methodology section of 3.3 in the Case For Support document.
Planned Impact
National public sector
At the national public health sector level, the Scottish Government, its Alcohol Evidence Group and NHS Health Scotland's will all benefit from the proposed work in relation to ultimate improvements in mental health and wellbeing. With shared investment in Scotland's alcohol strategy and its evaluation by the MESAS work stream of NHS Health Scotland, they have mutual interest in ensuring that the development and implementation of policy on alcohol-related problems is supported by evidence-based research. The evaluation consortium seeks and will benefit from enhanced knowledge, research capacity and efficiency with the improved estimates of alcohol consumption, and prevalence of harmful drinking and dependency we are offering. In this way, our proposed work will influence the development of public health policy and legislation such as minimum alcohol unit pricing. The corrected population alcohol consumption estimates will also facilitate more finely honed services. Additionally, the correction procedure methodology we offer will inform the Scottish Government planning and reporting of future surveys.
Regional and local public sector
Regionally, more local estimates of alcohol consumption and dependency will benefit the MESAS team with evaluation and NHS health boards and local authorities with service planning, thus informing the practice of health professionals.
Third sector
With a strategic role in tackling associated problems, Alcohol & Drug Partnerships respond to the needs of local areas, based on evidence and outcomes - one of which concerns reducing the prevalence of harmful drinking. By providing appropriately refined small area alcohol consumption estimates, we shall facilitate enhance knowledge, research capacity and efficiency of Alcohol & Drug Partnerships and other voluntary sector organisations.
General public
Our proposed work will facilitate the evaluation of Scotland's alcohol strategy - with the ultimate aim of reducing alcohol-related health and social harms - leading to national improvements in cultural vibrancy, quality of life, and general health and well-being. Specifically, conditions which are likely to be reduced include depression, anxiety, affective conduct disorders and suicides. If successful, gains for the general public include decreases in the alcohol-related economic burden and reductions in alcohol-related crime and antisocial behaviour. Such gains will increase public awareness of the economic and societal benefits of alcohol consumption reduction and the contribution of science.
International influence
With direct relevance to alcohol strategy policy, the proposed work and the resultant increased knowledge have wider implications for public health sectors of other countries of the UK, Western Europe and beyond. In settings where there is interest in alcohol-related harm reduction, the implementation of legislation such as minimum alcohol unit pricing could be considered.
Surveys are widely used by government departments and these improvements in methodology will be of interest to a wide international audience helping government departments and other researchers to better address bias in a variety of settings. The adoption of our proposed methodology in the estimation of alcohol consumption from surveys in England - and other countries with such linkage - would represent operational and organisational change at the wider international level.
At the national public health sector level, the Scottish Government, its Alcohol Evidence Group and NHS Health Scotland's will all benefit from the proposed work in relation to ultimate improvements in mental health and wellbeing. With shared investment in Scotland's alcohol strategy and its evaluation by the MESAS work stream of NHS Health Scotland, they have mutual interest in ensuring that the development and implementation of policy on alcohol-related problems is supported by evidence-based research. The evaluation consortium seeks and will benefit from enhanced knowledge, research capacity and efficiency with the improved estimates of alcohol consumption, and prevalence of harmful drinking and dependency we are offering. In this way, our proposed work will influence the development of public health policy and legislation such as minimum alcohol unit pricing. The corrected population alcohol consumption estimates will also facilitate more finely honed services. Additionally, the correction procedure methodology we offer will inform the Scottish Government planning and reporting of future surveys.
Regional and local public sector
Regionally, more local estimates of alcohol consumption and dependency will benefit the MESAS team with evaluation and NHS health boards and local authorities with service planning, thus informing the practice of health professionals.
Third sector
With a strategic role in tackling associated problems, Alcohol & Drug Partnerships respond to the needs of local areas, based on evidence and outcomes - one of which concerns reducing the prevalence of harmful drinking. By providing appropriately refined small area alcohol consumption estimates, we shall facilitate enhance knowledge, research capacity and efficiency of Alcohol & Drug Partnerships and other voluntary sector organisations.
General public
Our proposed work will facilitate the evaluation of Scotland's alcohol strategy - with the ultimate aim of reducing alcohol-related health and social harms - leading to national improvements in cultural vibrancy, quality of life, and general health and well-being. Specifically, conditions which are likely to be reduced include depression, anxiety, affective conduct disorders and suicides. If successful, gains for the general public include decreases in the alcohol-related economic burden and reductions in alcohol-related crime and antisocial behaviour. Such gains will increase public awareness of the economic and societal benefits of alcohol consumption reduction and the contribution of science.
International influence
With direct relevance to alcohol strategy policy, the proposed work and the resultant increased knowledge have wider implications for public health sectors of other countries of the UK, Western Europe and beyond. In settings where there is interest in alcohol-related harm reduction, the implementation of legislation such as minimum alcohol unit pricing could be considered.
Surveys are widely used by government departments and these improvements in methodology will be of interest to a wide international audience helping government departments and other researchers to better address bias in a variety of settings. The adoption of our proposed methodology in the estimation of alcohol consumption from surveys in England - and other countries with such linkage - would represent operational and organisational change at the wider international level.
Organisations
- MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (Lead Research Organisation)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- Columbia University (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- Government of Scotland (Collaboration)
- NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
Publications
Christensen AI
(2015)
What is wrong with non-respondents? Alcohol-, drug- and smoking-related mortality and morbidity in a 12-year follow-up study of respondents and non-respondents in the Danish Health and Morbidity Survey.
in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Christensen AI
(2015)
Response to Fergusson & Boden (2015): The importance of considering the impacts of survey non-participation.
in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Davies C
(2015)
Factors associated with consenting to health record linkage in the Scottish Health Surveys
in European Journal of Public Health
Gorman E
(2013)
Quantifying non-response bias in the Scottish Health Survey by comparison of alcohol-related harms with the general population
in European Journal of Public Health
Gorman E
(2014)
Assessing the representativeness of population-sampled health surveys through linkage to administrative data on alcohol-related outcomes.
in American journal of epidemiology
Gorman E
(2017)
Adjustment for survey non-representativeness using record-linkage: refined estimates of alcohol consumption by deprivation in Scotland.
in Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Gray L
(2014)
Estimation of alcohol intake corrected for non-response bias using record-linked survey data in Scotland
in European Journal of Public Health
Gray L
(2016)
The importance of post hoc approaches for overcoming non-response and attrition bias in population-sampled studies.
in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Description | Citation in Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs article |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24988268 |
Description | Citation in NHS Health Scotland's Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) annual report |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | The Scottish Government have tasked NHS Health Scotland with the responsibility of evaluating Scotland's alcohol strategy (including Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP), if implemented) through the Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) programme of work. The citation of our paper in the annual report contributes to the body of knowledge having a bearing on the intended ultimate reduction of population alcohol consumption and associated harms. |
URL | http://www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/24485-MESAS_4th%20Annual%20Report%20Dec%2014.pdf |
Description | Citation in the Scottish Government-commissioned NHS Health Scotland's Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) annual report (LG) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/24485-MESAS_4th%20Annual%20Report%20Dec%2014.pdf |
Description | Citation in the Scottish Government-commissioned NHS Health Scotland's Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) annual report (LG) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/24485-MESAS_4th%20Annual%20Report%20Dec%2014.pdf |
Description | Citation in the Scottish Government-commissioned NHS Health Scotland's Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) updated assessment of the validity and reliability of alcohol retail sales data |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | The Scottish Government have tasked NHS Health Scotland with the responsibility of evaluating Scotland's alcohol strategy (including Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP), if implemented) through the Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) programme of work. The citation of our paper in the annual report contributes to the body of knowledge having a bearing on the intended ultimate reduction of population alcohol consumption and associated harms. |
URL | http://www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/25959-MESAS%20validity%20reliability%20update%20-%20... |
Description | Citation in the Scottish Government-commissioned NHS Health Scotland's Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy (MESAS) updated assessment of the validity and reliability of alcohol retail sales data (LG) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/25959-MESAS%20validity%20reliability%20update%20-%20... |
Description | European Public Health Association's Public Health Epidemiology Section meeting in Vienna was attended by Linsay Gray |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Liaising with colleagues including non-academic public health professionals to shape agenda-setting at the international level. |
Description | Influence resulted in the record linkage of NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health and Wellbeing Survey from 2014 onward |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Resulted in the enhancement of the data and its utility for research and health policy-informing at the regional level. |
Description | Linsay Gray has joined the technical steering group of the NHSGGC's Health and Wellbeing Survey. |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | Unit response to the Scottish Government consultation on 2017 Scottish Household Survey coordinated by Linsay Gray |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Resulted in changes to the survey questionnaire and conduct, ensuring the most appropriate topics and coverage, leading to optimal health policy-informing at the national level. |
URL | http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/16002/Consultation/2017Consultation/SHS2017response |
Description | Calderone award, Columbia University |
Amount | $100,000 (USD) |
Organisation | Columbia University |
Department | Mailman School of Public Health |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 01/2016 |
End | 12/2016 |
Description | Calderone award, Columbia University (LG) |
Amount | $100,000 (USD) |
Organisation | Columbia University |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 01/2016 |
End | 12/2016 |
Description | Columbia travel award for the European Public Health conference 2016 (Linsay Gray) |
Amount | $25,000 (USD) |
Organisation | Columbia University |
Department | Columbia University Calderone award |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United States |
Start | 06/2016 |
End | 11/2016 |
Title | Post-hoc methodology for addressing non-response bias in population-sampled studies |
Description | We have developed a method to address non-response bias in population-sampled studies using a comparison of mortality (and morbidity rates) for health-behavior related causes among survey respondents and the general population. This is undertaken via record linkage of survey respondents to death files (as well hospitalization data if available) to inform on harm outcomes, and compares harm rates for specific causes to those in the general population to allow inference on non-respondents. The approach then generates observations for non-respondents with the corresponding harm rates in each socio-demographic sub-group, uses multiple imputation to provide health-behavior estimates for the entire population and population sub-groups, and creates modified multiple imputations for health behaviors to represent likely differences in association between behaviors and harm between observed and missing respondents. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Plans/consideration of application of method to studies across Europe and North America |
Title | Use of record-linkage to handle non-response |
Description | Develop advanced statistical methodology to address survey non-response induced imprecision of SHeS-based alcohol consumption estimates, with reference to general population estimates, and alcohol-related morbidity and mortality data. |
Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Publications (pmid: 23457333 and 25227767 ) and various conference presentations. |
URL | http://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/research-programmes/mh/meth/bias.html |
Description | Columbia University Visiting Scholarship |
Organisation | Columbia University |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Linsay Gray is building collaborations; delivered a presentation on the MRC-funded project; delivered a training seminar on record linkage and associations with the MRC-funded project. Linsay Gray is overall project lead, advising on the design, analysis and conduct of the study; senior and lead authoring papers. |
Collaborator Contribution | Hosting Linsay Gray as Visiting Scholar at Columbia University; sourcing and analysing data; leading and co-authoring papers. Partners are: Katherine M Keyes, Silvia Martins, Frank Popham, Caroline Rutherford, Andrew Gelman |
Impact | 4 grant proposals submitted, Paper published PMID:29389712, 4 invited talks given at USA institutions including to industry, professional as well academic audiences, 4 conference presentations (USA and Germany) and preparation of a further journal article underway |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Impacts of e-cigarette regulation via the EU Tobacco Products Directive on young people's use of ecigarettes: a natural experiment; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research funded study |
Organisation | Cardiff University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Contributing as University of Glasgow lead, advising on the design, analysis and conduct of the quantitative study |
Collaborator Contribution | University of Cardiff: overall responsibility for the study; University of Stirling: leading the Scottish study arm; University of Bristol leading the English study arm. |
Impact | publication in press Hallingberg, B., Maynard, O., Bauld, L., Brown, R., Gray, L. , Lowthian, E., MacKintosh, A. M., Moore, L. , Munafo, M. and Moore, G. (2018) Have e-cigarettes renormalised or displaced youth smoking? Results of a segmented regression analysis of repeated cross sectional survey data in England, Scotland and Wales. Tobacco Control, (Accepted for Publication) |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Impacts of e-cigarette regulation via the EU Tobacco Products Directive on young people's use of ecigarettes: a natural experiment; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research funded study |
Organisation | University of Bristol |
Department | MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Contributing as University of Glasgow lead, advising on the design, analysis and conduct of the quantitative study |
Collaborator Contribution | University of Cardiff: overall responsibility for the study; University of Stirling: leading the Scottish study arm; University of Bristol leading the English study arm. |
Impact | publication in press Hallingberg, B., Maynard, O., Bauld, L., Brown, R., Gray, L. , Lowthian, E., MacKintosh, A. M., Moore, L. , Munafo, M. and Moore, G. (2018) Have e-cigarettes renormalised or displaced youth smoking? Results of a segmented regression analysis of repeated cross sectional survey data in England, Scotland and Wales. Tobacco Control, (Accepted for Publication) |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Impacts of e-cigarette regulation via the EU Tobacco Products Directive on young people's use of ecigarettes: a natural experiment; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research funded study |
Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Contributing as University of Glasgow lead, advising on the design, analysis and conduct of the quantitative study |
Collaborator Contribution | University of Cardiff: overall responsibility for the study; University of Stirling: leading the Scottish study arm; University of Bristol leading the English study arm. |
Impact | publication in press Hallingberg, B., Maynard, O., Bauld, L., Brown, R., Gray, L. , Lowthian, E., MacKintosh, A. M., Moore, L. , Munafo, M. and Moore, G. (2018) Have e-cigarettes renormalised or displaced youth smoking? Results of a segmented regression analysis of repeated cross sectional survey data in England, Scotland and Wales. Tobacco Control, (Accepted for Publication) |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Scottish Health Survey Project Board |
Organisation | Government of Scotland |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Linsay Gray is a board member contributing recommendations for survey conduct and reporting based on findings from MRC-funded work. |
Collaborator Contribution | Survey conduct updates and information on changes. |
Impact | The project board is currently contemplating a change to the sampling of the Scottish Health Survey suggested by Linsay Gray on the basis of the findings of the MRC-funded work |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | Scottish Health Survey Project Board |
Organisation | National Centre for Social Research |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Linsay Gray is a board member contributing recommendations for survey conduct and reporting based on findings from MRC-funded work. |
Collaborator Contribution | Survey conduct updates and information on changes. |
Impact | The project board is currently contemplating a change to the sampling of the Scottish Health Survey suggested by Linsay Gray on the basis of the findings of the MRC-funded work |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | Scottish Health Surveys 2012-15 |
Organisation | National Centre for Social Research |
Department | Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Part of the consortium; contributing to report chapter writing |
Collaborator Contribution | Survey conduct |
Impact | Successful funding bid; fieldwork has been completed for previous survey years and is currently underway for 2015. 2012, 2013 and 2014 annual report chapters have been published. Public engagement: SHeS consortium film appearance. |
Start Year | 2012 |
Title | Syntax for non-response methodology |
Description | Syntax written in STATA for non-response methodology |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Impact | This has been submitted to accompany the publication of the statistical methodology paper in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (currently under review) |
Description | A methodology for addressing health survey non-response using record-linkage |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: Date: 8-10.11.2013 Location: Brussels, Belgium Title: A methodology for addressing health survey non-response using record-linkage Authors: Gray L, Gorman E, McCartney G, White IR, Katikireddi SV, Rutherford L, Leyland AH. Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/suppl_1/ckt126.179.short |
Description | A novel use of record-linkage: resolving non-representativeness in health surveys and improving alcohol consumption estimates to inform strategy evaluation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | poster presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: Public health science: A national conference dedicated to new research in public health Date: 23.11.2012 Location: Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK Title: A novel use of record-linkage: resolving non-representativeness in health surveys and improving alcohol consumption estimates to inform strategy evaluation Hosted by the Royal Society of Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, National Heart Forum, and The Lancet Authors: Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)60398-0/abstract |
Description | Addressing non-response bias in health survey data web area |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Created a one-stop web presence for the funded project Increased awareness and reach of the funded project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014 |
URL | https://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/research-programmes/mh/meth/bias.html |
Description | Addressing non-response in the Scottish Health Survey |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Presentation stimulated discussion and consideration of adaptations to Scottish Health Survey conduct and weighting Adaptations to Scottish Health Survey conduct and weighting have subsequently been given more consideration |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.aqmen.ac.uk/event/Sept2013/ScottishHealthSurveyDataWorkshop |
Description | Adjusting survey-based estimates of alcohol consumption in Scotland for non-response bias: record-linkage study |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: Date: 10-12.9.2014 Location: University of Oxford, UK Title: UK Society for Social Medicine 58th Annual Scientific Meeting Authors: L Gray, E Gorman, IR White, SV Katikireddi, G McCartney, L Rutherford, L Graham, AH Leyland peer-reviewed abstract Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://jech.bmj.com/content/68/Suppl_1/A7.1.abstract?sid=7065f76a-c441-4588-ae73-247dda810895 |
Description | Assessing and addressing non-response in population health studies. Workshop delivered at: 5th Joint European Public Health Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: 5th Joint European Public Health Conference 2013 Gray L, La Torre G Date: - 8-10.11.13 Location -Brussels, Belgium Title - Assessing and addressing non-response in population health studies. Workshop Authors - all authors Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014 |
URL | http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/suppl_1/ckt126.175.short |
Description | BBC Facebook Live Unequal Scotland? event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Contribution to the BBC Scotland Facebook Live event on inequalities (18/11/16). Linsay Gray actively particated in the event via posting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38003373 |
Description | Contribution to Wikipedia LG |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | As part of a Wikipedia 'editathon' Linsay updated the entry for the Health Survey for England, and created a new page for partner organisation ScotCen Social Research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Survey_for_England_and_https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScotCen_So... |
Description | Data synergy: the power of record linkage |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Seminar presented by Linsay Gray at Columbia University Systems Science Program (CUSSP), Substance Abuse Epidemiology Training Program faculty-fellow (pre- and post-doc) seminar series, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University This was an interactive session which stimulated discussion of the pros and cons of record-linkage with consideration for wider uses of arising data including epidemiological interrogation and informing on representativeness of population-based studies. Too early to say |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.mailman.columbia.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-and-staff-resources/momentum/embracing-complex... |
Description | Estimation of alcohol intake corrected for non-response bias using record-linked survey data in Scotland |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: 7th Joint European Public Health Conference Date: 19-22.11.14 Location: Glasgow, uK Title: Estimation of alcohol intake corrected for non-response bias using record-linked survey data in Scotland Authors: L Gray, E Gorman, IR White, G McCartney, SV Katikireddi, L Rutherford, L Graham, M Robinson, AH Leyland peer-reviewed abstract Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Exploiting record-linkage to alcohol-related hospitalisations and mortality data to quantify non-response bias in the Scottish Health Survey |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: 4th Scottish Health Informatics Conference: "Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research" Date: 28-30.8.2013 Location:St Andrews, UK Title: Exploiting record-linkage to alcohol-related hospitalisations and mortality data to quantify non-response bias in the Scottish Health Survey Authors: Gorman E, Leyland AH, McCartney G, White IR, Katikireddi SV, Rutherford L, Graham L, Gray L Possible collaboration with Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Exploiting record-linkage to quantify non-response bias and improve population estimates of alcohol consumption in the Scottish Health Surveys |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: Health survey users' meeting Date: 11.7.2013 Location: London, UK Title: Exploiting record-linkage to quantify non-response bias and improve population estimates of alcohol consumption in the Scottish Health Surveys Authors: Consideration by Health Survey for England of application of methodology to those data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/media/263014/healthusermeeting_gorman_11july13.pdf |
Description | Filling in the blanks: Post-study resolution of non-participation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Seminar presented by Linsay Gray at MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK. Considerations given by audience to broader implications of work for UK population-based studies, in particular birth cohort studies, for instance Life Study. Life Study has a programme stream for addressing non-response |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/research-ich/population-policy-practice |
Description | Fixing the problem: Post-hoc resolution of study non-participation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Seminar presented by Linsay Gray at Institute for Social & Economic Research (ISER) Monday Seminar Series, ISER, University of Essex, UK; 17 March 2014. Audience considered implications for the analysis of population-based studies e.g. Understanding Society data with regard to non-response Plans are in progress for application of the methodology to Understanding Society data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/events |
Description | Have we got this covered? Consequences of and solutions to declining participation levels in health surveys |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | gave an invited seminar at Imperial College London, Department of Primary Care and Public Health on 27 March 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/school-public-health/primary-care-and-public-health/news/ |
Description | Invited presentation to industry (Palo Alto Research Center) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk presented by Linsay Gray on the essentials of record linkage, non-response and imputation including the developed methodology to Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Company, Webster, New York, USA on 29 September 2015. Statisticians from industry in attendance learned about the methodology, participated in discussion and explored potential collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.parc.com/about/parc-xerox.html |
Description | Invited presentation to industry (Palo Alto Research Center) (LG) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk presented by Linsay Gray on the essentials of record linkage, non-response and imputation including the developed methodology to Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Company, Webster, New York, USA on 29 September 2015. Statisticians from industry in attendance learned about the methodology, participated in discussion and explored potential collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.parc.com/about/parc-xerox.html |
Description | Invited presentation to industry (Palo Alto Research Center) (LG) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk presented by Linsay Gray on the essentials of record linkage, non-response and imputation including the developed methodology to Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Company, Webster, New York, USA on 29 September 2015. Statisticians from industry in attendance learned about the methodology, participated in discussion and explored potential collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.parc.com/about/parc-xerox.html |
Description | Invited talk (American Statistical Association) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk presented by Linsay Gray on non-response bias correction of health survey estimates using record-linkage to the American Statistical Association Rochester chapter at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA on 11 May 2015. Statisticians from industry and the third sector as well as academia in attendance learned about the methodology and participated in discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://community.amstat.org/rochester/home |
Description | Invited talk (American Statistical Association) (LG) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk presented by Linsay Gray on non-response bias correction of health survey estimates using record-linkage to the American Statistical Association Rochester chapter at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA on 11 May 2015. Statisticians from industry and the third sector as well as academia in attendance learned about the methodology and participated in discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://community.amstat.org/rochester/home |
Description | Invited talk (American Statistical Association) (LG) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk presented by Linsay Gray on non-response bias correction of health survey estimates using record-linkage to the American Statistical Association Rochester chapter at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA on 11 May 2015. Statisticians from industry and the third sector as well as academia in attendance learned about the methodology and participated in discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://community.amstat.org/rochester/home |
Description | MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Research Skills Seminar, December 2012 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: Research Skills Seminar, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit Date: 04.12.2012 Location: Glasgow, UK Title: Record linkage Authors: Gray, Linsay Raised awareness of record linkage and its advantages. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Media interview about the refined alcohol consumption estimates |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Discussed newspaper article covering the refined Scottish Health Survey alcohol consumption estimates publication with health correspondent of national newspaper (14/03/17). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ |
Description | Membership of Scottish Government Scottish Health Survey Project Board 2012 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Meeting of members on a biannual basis from June 2012 Knowledge exchange between policymakers, health boards and academic audiences |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Missing in action: Post-hoc accounting for health survey non-response |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Seminar presented by Linsay Gray at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA. Discussion ensued on implications for the analyses and interpretation of US health survey data. Collaboration is now underway with faculty at Columbia University to apply the MRC-funded developed methodology to US health surveys: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the General Social Survey (GSS). A grant proposal is currently being prepared for submission to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.mailman.columbia.edu/academic-departments/epidemiology/news-and-events |
Description | National television appearance related to publication of the annual Scottish Health Survey report |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Linsay Gray particated as a discussion panel member on national television talking about the Scottish Health Survey as report author (20/09/16). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://player.stv.tv/ |
Description | Oral presentation at the Health survey users' meeting; London, UK, 11 July 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Event name: Health survey users' meeting 2013 Date: 11.07.2013 Location: London, UK Title: Exploiting record-linkage to quantify non-response bias and improve population estimates of alcohol consumption in the Scottish Health Surveys Authors: Gorman E, Leyland AH, McCartney G, White IR, Katikireddi SV, Rutherford L, Graham L, Gray L Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=3508 |
Description | Organisation of the biennial three day Scottish Finnish Swedish workshop on Social Patterning of Health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The biennial three day Scottish Finnish Swedish workshop on Social Patterning of Health which took place at Airth Castle, Scotland, in May 2014 we organised brought together over 40 researchers from the University of Helsinki and Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS) with Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU). Work was shared and ideas were exchanged by all delegates during nine chaired sessions covering international perspectives, evaluations, methods, and lifestyle, family, school, community and national contexts. Plans are in progress for application of the MRC-funded methodology to Finnish health survey data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.chess.su.se/ |
Description | Organisation of the biennial three day Scottish Finnish Swedish workshop on Social Patterning of Health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The biennial three day Scottish Finnish Swedish workshop on Social Patterning of Health which took place at Airth Castle, Scotland, in May 2014 we organised brought together over 40 researchers from the University of Helsinki and Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS) with Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU). Work was shared and ideas were exchanged by all delegates during nine chaired sessions covering international perspectives, evaluations, methods, and lifestyle, family, school, community and national contexts. Plans are in progress for application of the MRC-funded methodology to Finnish health survey data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.chess.su.se/ |
Description | Peer-reviewed oral presentation at the 5th Joint European Public Health Conference, November 2012 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: 5th Joint European Public Health Conference Date: 09.11.2012 Location: St Julians, Malta Title: Using record-linkage to investigate the representativeness of Scottish Health Survey data Authors: Gray L, White IR, McCartney G, Katikireddi SV, Given L, Leyland AH Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.eupha.org/programme/dynamic_programme.php?programme=day&day=2012-11-09 and http://eurpub... |
Description | Peer-reviewed oral presentation at the 6th Joint European Public Health Conference, November 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: 6th Joint European Public Health Conference Date: 14.11.2013 Location: Brussels, Belguim Title: Quantifying non-response bias in the Scottish Health Survey by comparison of alcohol-related harms with the general population. Paper presented at: 5th Joint European Public Health Conference; Brussels, Belgium, 8-10 November 2013. Authors: Gorman E, Leyland AH, McCartney G, White IR, Katikireddi SV, Rutherford L, Graham L, Gray L Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.eupha.org/programme/dynamic_programme.php?programme=full&day=&layout=extended N1. Preven... |
Description | Peer-reviewed oral presentation at the 6th Joint European Public Health Conference, November 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: 6th Joint European Public Health Conference Date: 15.11.2013 Location: Brussels, Belguim Title: A methodology for addressing health survey non-response using record-linkage Authors: Gray L, Gorman E, McCartney G, White IR, Katikireddi SV, Rutherford L, Leyland AH. Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.eupha.org/programme/dynamic_programme.php?programme=day&day=2013-11-15 H3. Workshop: Asse... |
Description | Peer-reviewed oral presentation at the Royal Society of Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, National Heart Forum, and The Lancet event, November 2012 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Health professionals |
Results and Impact | Conference name: Public health science: A national conference dedicated to new research in public health Date: 23.11.2012 Location: London, UK Title: A novel use of record-linkage: resolving non-representativeness in health surveys and improving alcohol consumption estimates to inform strategy evaluation Authors: Gray L, White IR, McCartney G, Katikireddi SV, Rutherford L, Leyland AH Presentation resulted in publication in Lancet online http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/pdfs/public-health/Public_Health_Abstracts_ALL_Part40.pdf |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/epd01.php + http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/pdfs/public-... |
Description | Peer-reviewed oral presentation at the Scottish Health Informatics Conference: "Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research"; St Andrews, UK, 28th-30th August 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: Scottish Health Informatics Conference: "Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research" Date: 29.08.2013 Location: St Andrews, UK Title: Exploiting record-linkage to alcohol-related hospitalisations and mortality data to quantify non-response bias in the Scottish Health Survey Authors: Gorman E, Leyland AH, McCartney G, White IR, Katikireddi SV, Rutherford L, Graham L, Gray L Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.scot-ship.ac.uk/sites/default/files/PDFs/final_programme.pdf |
Description | Peer-reviewed oral presentation at the Society for Social Medicine 56th Annual Scientific Meeting, September 2012 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: Society for Social Medicine 56th Annual Scientific Meeting Date: 14.09.2012 Location: London, UK URL: http://jech.bmj.com/content/66/Suppl_1/A28.2.abstract?sid=76dab2da-836d-4c69-ada5-3476bb5dade0 Title: Exploring impacts of survey non-response using record-linkage of Scottish Health Survey data (2003 to 2008) Authors: Gray L, White IR, McCartney G, Katikireddi SV, Given L, Leyland AH Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Peer-reviewed workshop chaired at the 6th Joint European Public Health Conference, November 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: 6th Joint European Public Health Conference Date: 15.11.2013 Location: Brussels, Belguim Title: Assessing and addressing non-response in population health studies; The official workshop of the EUPHA section on Public Health Epidemiology Authors: Gray L, La Torre G Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.eupha.org/programme/dynamic_programme.php?programme=day&day=2013-11-15 H3. Workshop: Asse... |
Description | Presentation at Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) event: Introduction to the Scottish Health Survey, September 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Event name: Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) event:Introduction to the Scottish Health Survey Date: 24.09.2013 Location: University of Edinburgh, UK Title: Addressing non-response in the Scottish Health Survey. Authors: Gray, Linsay Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://aqmen.ac.uk/events/Sept2013/IntroScottishHealthSurvey |
Description | Presentation at University of Glasgow Institute of Health & Wellbeing: Drugs, Alcohol, Addictions and Recovery workshop, May 2012 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Workshop name: University of Glasgow Institute of Health & Wellbeing: Drugs, Alcohol, Addictions and Recovery workshop Date: 04.05.2012 Location: Glasgow, UK Title: Informing alcohol strategy evaluation: harnessing record-linkage to resolve non-representativeness in health surveys and improve alcohol consumption estimates Authors: Gray L, et al Results: Interactive discussion among 30 participants from a dozen research institutions and health boards Potential collaboration |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Presentation at the 9th European Public Health Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Linsay Gray presented work on USA survey participation bias at the 9th European Public Health Conference (10/11/16). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://ephconference.eu/conference-vienna-2016-301 |
Description | Presentation at the biennial joint meeting of MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, UK; Department of Social Research; University of Helsinki and National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; Centre for Health Equity Studies, CHESS, Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2012. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: Scottish/Swedish/Finnish health inequalities conference Date: 11.05.2012 Location: Tvärminne, Finland URL: http://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/ http://www.helsinki.fi/socialresearch/ http://www.thl.fi/en_US/web/en http://www.chess.su.se/ Title: Added value: exploiting record-linkage to gain insight into the representativeness of health survey data. Authors: Gray L, White IR, McCartney G, Katikireddi SV, Given L, Leyland AH Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Quantifying non-response bias in the Scottish Health Survey by comparison of alcohol-related harms with the general population |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: Date: 8-10.11.2013 Location: Brussels, Belgium Title: Quantifying non-response bias in the Scottish Health Survey by comparison of alcohol-related harms with the general population Authors: Gorman E, Leyland AH, McCartney G, White IR, Katikireddi SV, Rutherford L, Graham L, Gray L Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/suppl_1/ckt126.050.full |
Description | Science Festival event, "Yeah, but is it significant?" (LG) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Science Festival event organised by the Glasgow Local Group of the Royal Statistical Society [Linsay Gray and Ruth Dundas are committee members] along with the University of Glasgow School of Mathematics and Statistics. The event was attended by S5 and S6 students from local schools on thinking mathematically about chance and risk and how to unpick causality from noisy data in real life settings presented by the 2014 Royal Statistical Society Schools lecturer Dr. Jennifer Rogers (Oxford University) and Mitchell Lecturer Liberty Vittert (University of Glasgow). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.glasgowsciencefestival.org.uk/ |
Description | Scottish Health Survey recommendations based on MRC non-response project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Talk given by Linsay Gray at Scottish Health Survey Project Board Meeting, St Andrews House - Scottish Government, Edinburgh, UK Discussion of implications followed and agreement from the Chair to take forward discussions with the Farr Institute regarding change to survey sampling design. Follow-up from Scottish Government project manager of the Scottish Health Survey about considerations for future conduct of the Scottish Health Survey |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Health/scottish-health-survey/contacts |
Description | Seminar for the Scottish Government Health Analytical Services Division on the MRC project exploring and addressing Scottish Health Survey alcohol estimate bias |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Audience consider the implications for Scottish Health Survey conduct, reporting and analyses. Invited to provide follow-up at the following Scottish Health Survey Project Board Meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Update on the added value: exploiting record-linked health survey data to tackle non-representativeness |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference name: Scottish/Swedish/Finnish health inequalities conference Date: 7-9.5.2014 Location: Airth, Scotland Title: Update on the added value: exploiting record-linked health survey data to tackle non-representativeness Authors: Gray L Not known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Visit to Vertus Charter School, Rochester, New York |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Linsay Gray visited Vertus Charter School in Rochester, New York where she spoke to pupils and parents about a career in statistics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.vertusschool.org/ |
Description | Workshop for the MESAS group on the MRC project exploring and addressing Scottish Health Survey alcohol estimate bias |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Workshop presented by Linsay Gray at MESAS Steering group meeting with SHAAP & Alcohol Focus Scotland, Meridian Court, Glasgow, UK. Audience expressed commitment to use of refined estimates for sensitivity-based analyses of time-series alcohol consumption estimates arising from MRC-funded work. Refined estimates to be shared with MESAS team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.healthscotland.com/scotlands-health/evaluation/planning/MESAS.aspx |