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Table 1 Prevalence of Bereavement and Relative Difference, Panel versus MI data. 2019 Georgia Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

From: Measuring bereavement prevalence in a complex sampling survey: the 2019 Georgia Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

 

Panel

N = 4,289

Weighted MI

N = 8,164,018

Relative Difference (RD, %)

Percent reporting bereavement

46.02

45.38

1.39

Demographics

 Males

43.89

44.24

-0.80

 Females

47.66

46.43

2.58

 SOGI§: CIS Gender

46.88

45.71

2.50

 SOGI§: All other

44.48

41.00

7.82

 18 – 24 years

38.51

37.49

2.65

 25 – 34 years

42.60

43.60

-2.35

 35 – 44 years

48.41

47.77

1.32

 45 – 54 years

48.20

48.01

0.39

 55 – 64 years

48.66

50.15

-3.06

 65 + years

45.14

43.85

2.86

 Black / African American only, NH

54.98

55.72

-1.35

 White only, NH

44.79

42.75

4.55

 All other

37.65

33.75

10.36

Social Determinants of Health

 Place

  Metropolitan County

45.10

44.94

0.35

  Non-Metropolitan County

47.29

47.25

0.08

 Education

  Graduated, College or Technical School

43.58

43.63

-0.11

  Attended College or Technical School

48.45

47.74

1.47

  Graduated, High School

47.38

45.71

3.52

  Did not graduate, High School

47.38

43.09

9.05

 Employment

  Employed

45.87

45.17

1.53

  Unemployed

52.29

48.29

7.65

  Retired

45.24

45.18

0.13

  Unable to work

49.54

51.51

-3.98

  Homemaker or student

43.29

41.12

5.01

High risk states of Health Behaviors in past 30 days

 14 + Days / No physical activity

46.04

45.97

0.15

 Current smoker / Yes

52.10

53.44

-2.57

 Binge Drinking / Yes

48.78

47.08

3.49

 SRH / Fair or Poor

48.94

50.44

-3.06

 14 + days/ Physical health not good

50.87

51.78

-1.79

 14 + days/ Mental health not good

53.34

54.72

-2.59

  1. Item ‘Have you experienced the death of a family member or close friend in the years 2018 or 2019? SE = Standard Error, SOGI§, CIS Gender includes ‘I think of myself as straight and not transgender.’ SOGI§, all other includes Gay /Bisexual /Something else and transgender (male to female, female to male, gender nonconforming). NH€ = non-Hispanic. SRH¥ Self-rated health 5 categories: excellent, very good, good, fair, and poor. Health behaviors reflect Healthy People 2020 target areas described in accessed April 11, 2021. https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives
  2. For 2019 BRFSS Questionnaire https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/questionnaires/index.htm; accessed May 14, 2021. RD, the relative difference between panel and weighted multiple imputation (MI). Héraud-Bousquet et al. BMC Med Res Meth 2012, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/12/73