Choosing area based socioeconomic measures to monitor social inequalities in low birth weight and childhood lead poisoning: The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project (US)

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The Development of a Standardized Neighborhood Deprivation Index (2006, methodology): “Despite the potential misattribution of Bneighborhood^ influence to an administrative unit, other authors have found using the census tract as the unit of analysis useful in studies of birth outcomes.(42) Further, research using census data to approximate deprivation is inherently limited in its abi”
Race/ethnicity, gender, and monitoring socioeconomic gradients in health: a comparison of area-based socioeconomic measures--the public health disparities geocoding project. (2003, methodology): “In our prior research, however, with the 2 databases containing individual-level socioeconomic data (birth and death), we found no variation by educational level in the proportion of records geocoded at each geographic level.(24,25) Second, misclassification of race/ethnicity and differential census”