Profiling the mobile-only population in Australia: insights from the Australian National Health Survey.

CONCLUSIONS: Using landline telephones only for conducting population health surveys will have an impact on prevalence rate estimates of health risk factors due to the differing profiles of the mobile-only population from the landline-accessible population.
PMID: 27372061 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - July 2, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Baffour B, Haynes M, Dinsdale S, Western M, Pennay D Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research