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Appendix D: Verification of Completeness and Accuracy of the Participant Roster
Appendix D: Verification of Completeness and Accuracy of the Participant Roster
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The first was a comparison of the 1985 participant roster with the 1999 participant roster.) In the second, we compared the 1999 roster with participant lists compiled independently of the Nuclear Test Personnel Review (NTPR)
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Computer File Match MFUA staff created computer programs to select participant records that matched on the DNA lists provided for both the 1985 study and the current study. Because military service numbers are printed in varied formats, we truncated the alphabetical prefixes and added leading zeros where necessary.
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TABLE D-2. Instructions to Staff Examples Nature of Discrepancy One File Other File Understandable discrepancy on DOB 241100 241105 Understandable discrepancy on SSN 123-45-6789 123~5-6780 Understandable discrepancy on MSN 765432 0000765432 7654320000 AF0765432 765482 764582 NOTE: DOB = date of birth; MSN = military service number; and SSN = Social Security number.
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. Uppercase letters indicate decisions that occurred in the sample; lowercase letters indicate decisions that we likely would have chosen had these combinations occurred.
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Sample for DTRA Verification We drew a sample of 50 participants from each of the five series for each of the following categories: . participants who were found in both the 1985 participant list and the current, 1999, participant list, were called matched; .
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Participants Found Only in the 1985 Dataset- Old Only Of the sample of 250 participants found on the 1985 list, but not matched to a name on the 1999 participant list, 125 (50 percent) were discovered actually to be represented on the 1999 list, but the match had been obscured by inaccurate or missing identification information on one or both lists.
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49,14868,168 Total size including problem records NOTE: NA = not applicable. aThis validation study was done by Medical Follow-up Agency staff with a preliminary participant list; the numbers do not match the participant counts reported in the report analyses.
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For this validation study, we accepted the NAAV database as it was presented to us, editing only as necessary to ensure consistency of format in fields such as date of birth and to eliminate obvious duplicate records and records of confirmed civilians. We have not attempted to contact individual veterans to verify or obtain additional identifying information.
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Because more data were available for individuals in the write-in group, we were able to classify them in more detail when we matched them to the 1999 participant file: · "Matches" corresponded to individuals in the NTPR participant file as defined above. · "Not-five series" included individuals who mentioned the Five Series Study in their correspondence but provided documentation of participation (1)
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Members of the public, including atomic veteran representatives, and government officials were invited to attend. Many of the atomic veterans who were unable to attend in person provided written statements describing their involvement with the aboveground nuclear test program.
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in Group Group Sample Error Rate Estimated Errors New only 27,897 2/250 (0.8%:in 1999 dataset who should not be 223.2 Matched 38,729 2/250 (0.8%:in 1999 dataset who should not be 309.8 Old only 8,877 5/250 (2.0%:should be in 1999 but are not 177.5 We then added information from three participant-identifying sources external to NTPR the NAAV mortality study, veteran correspondence solicited by MFUA in veterans' publications, and veteran correspondence invited by MFUA in conjunction with its public meeting at the beginning of the Five Series Study. Ten individuals were confirmed by NTPR as five series participants who had not been included in its 1999 participant roster.
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