Health and social selection bias to participation in the NICOLA study

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    Health and social selection bias on consent to participation in the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

  • IRAS ID

    216420

  • Contact name

    Dermot O'Reilly

  • Contact email

    d.oreilly@qub.ac.uk

  • Sponsor organisation

    Queens University Belfast

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    2 years, 0 months, 0 days

  • Research summary

    The NICOLA response bias study aim is to link a response/ non response indicator to a series of data sets held by the Business Services Organisation and the Northern Ireland Census Office in order to determine to what extent health and social selection bias had had an effect on the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing, Wave 1 cohort.

  • REC name

    North West - Liverpool Central Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    18/NW/0152

  • Date of REC Opinion

    7 Mar 2018

  • REC opinion

    Favourable Opinion