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
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