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Public Opinion Quarterly, doi:10.1093/poq/nfn036
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Linguistic Minorities in a Health Survey

Sunghee Lee, Hoang Anh Nguyen, May Jawad and John Kurata

Address correspondence to Sunghee Lee; e-mail: slee9{at}ucla.edu.

Survey interview languages not only determine who is eligible to participate in certain surveys but may also influence survey estimates. We examined potential biases arising from the exclusion of linguistic minorities using the 2003 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), a multilingual survey. Although 88.3 percent of the interviews were conducted in English, results show that surveys using only English are likely to produce large differences in estimates. When survey interviews are conducted in English and Spanish, the overall difference may disappear, but the survey results for Asians remain unchanged. This implies that surveys conducted only in English may not adequately represent the general population and differences in estimates for Asians may exist even if English and Spanish are used.

SUNGHEE LEE AND MAY JAWAD are with the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, 10960 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1550, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA.

HOANG ANH NGUYEN is with the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA.

JOHN KURATA is with the California Office of Binational Border Health, 3851 Rosecrans St., San Diego, CA 92110, USA.


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