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Table 3 Women by number of identified births according to data source (restricted to women for whom SMR 2 linkage was attempted)

From: How good is probabilistic record linkage to reconstruct reproductive histories? Results from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study

  

Births per woman according to SMR2 linkage

Births per woman according to questionnaire

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

With linkage to SMR2 and questionnaire

With questionnaire only, no linkage to SMR2

 

0

14

5

2

0

0

0

0

0

21

(1)

470

(44)

 

1

397

9

6

0

0

0

0

0

412

(16)

139

(13)

 

2

215

1210

24

12

2

0

0

0

1463

(56)

305

(28)

 

3

70

94

374

12

4

1

0

0

555

(21)

127

(12)

 

4

12

15

21

61

0

0

0

1

110

(4)

31

(3)

 

5

5

2

4

4

18

1

1

0

35

(1)

7

(1)

 

6

1

0

1

1

1

1

0

0

5

(1)

0

(0)

 

7

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

(0)

0

(0)

 

8

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

1

(0)

0

(0)

 

9

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

(0)

0

(0)

With SMR2 linkage and questionnaire

N (%)

174 (30)

1136 (47)

432 (18)

90 (4)

26 (0.1)

3 (0)

1 (0)

2 (0)

2604 (100)

(100)

1079

(100)

With SMR2 linkage, no questionnaire

N (%)

338 (30)

513 (45)

213 (19)

52 (5)

15 (0.1)

6 (0)

2 (0)

0 (0)

1139 (100)