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Table 1 Comparison of education level between Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data and death certificate data among 513 decedents

From: Consistency between education reported in health survey and recorded in death certificate

Education recorded on death certificate

Education reported in the 1998 and 2001 NHANES

 

College or higher

High school

Middle school

Elementary school

No education

Unknown

Total

College or higher

26 (83.9)

3 (4.9)

1 (1.9)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

30

High school

3 (9.7)

42 (68.9)

13 (24.1)

3 (2.0)

3 (1.4)

0 (0.0)

64

Middle school

1 (3.2)

8 (13.1)

25 (46.3)

18 (12.2)

2 (0.9)

0 (0.0)

54

Elementary school

1 (3.2)

7 (11.5)

12 (22.2)

98 (66.7)

44 (20.1)

0 (0.0)

162

No education

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

3 (5.6)

28 (19.1)

170 (77.6)

1 (100.0)

202

Unknown

0 (0.0)

1 (1.6)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

1

Total

31 (100.0)

61 (100.0)

54 (100.0)

147 (100.0)

219 (100.0)

1 (100.0)

513

  1. Note: The denominator for the calculation is the number of deaths classified by level of education noted on the NHANES survey, so that the column percentages add to 100%.