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MONICA Population Survey Data Book

October 2000¹

Hanna Tolonen², Kari Kuulasmaa² and Esa Ruokokoski² for the WHO MONICA Project³

¹ The descriptions of Tables 6.6.2-6.6.5 in Section 6.6 were made more specific on 21 July 2003. The Introduction was extended on 3 March 2004. In Section 6.4.2 and Table 6.4.2, "Current daily smoking" was corrected to "Current smoking" on 9 August 2005. Table 6.4.2 was corrected (to make the treatment of missing data consistent with the description in Section 6.4) on 10 November 2005. 
² MONICA Data Centre, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
³ Annex: Sites and key personnel of the WHO MONICA Project

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This document includes the main findings of unpublished reports:

• Baseline population survey data book, prepared by Kari Kuulasmaa, Andrzej Pajak, Esa Ruokokoski, Anna-Maija Koivisto, Dusan Grafnetter, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Juha Akkila, Jorma Torppa. MNM 178A, February 1990.
• Second population survey data book, prepared by Pavel Kurjata, Kari Kuulasmaa, Anu Molarius, Esa Ruokokoski, Vladislav Moltchanov, Alun Evans. MNM260A, March 1994.

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Contents

• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Populations and survey periods
• 3. Sampling and response rates
• 4. Quality of the data
• 5. Data analysis and tabulations
  • 5.1. Age group
  • 5.2. Age standardization and other weighting
  • 5.3. Calculation formulae
    • 5.3.1. Notation
    • 5.3.2. Mean and its standard error
    • 5.3.3. Standard deviation
    • 5.3.4. Proportions of categorical variables and cumulative proportions
    • 5.3.5. Percentiles
• 6. Definition of variables
  • 6.1. Blood pressure
    • 6.1.1. Specification of data
    • 6.1.2. Systolic blood pressure
    • 6.1.3. Diastolic blood pressure
    • 6.1.4. Blood pressure categories
    • 6.1.5. Blood pressure categories among persons with high blood pressure
    • 6.1.6. Have you had your blood pressure measured in the last year?
  • 6.2. Cholesterol
    • 6.2.1. Specification of data
    • 6.2.2. Total cholesterol (mmol/l)
    • 6.2.3. HDL cholesterol (mmol/l)
    • 6.2.4. Proportion of HDL cholesterol in total cholesterol
    • 6.2.5. Age standardized proportions of those who have been told that they have high blood cholesterol
    • 6.2.6. Proportion of categories of treatment for lowering blood cholesterol among those who have been told that they have high blood cholesterol
    • 6.2.7. Proportion of those whose blood cholesterol was measured within one year
  • 6.3. Height, weight, waist and hip measurements
    • 6.3.1. Specification of data
    • 6.3.2. Weight
    • 6.3.3. Height
    • 6.3.4. Body mass index
    • 6.3.5. Waist
    • 6.3.6. Hip
    • 6.3.7. Waist to hip-ratio
  • 6.4. Smoking
    • 6.4.1. Specification of data
    • 6.4.2. Current smoking (including cigarette, pipe and cigar)
    • 6.4.3. Current cigarette smoking
    • 6.4.4. Daily cigarette smoking (current smokers and ex-smokers)
    • 6.4.5. Number of cigarettes smoked by population
    • 6.4.6. Number of cigarettes smoked by daily smokers
  • 6.5. Marital status and education
    • 6.5.1. Specification of data
    • 6.5.2. Categories of marital status
    • 6.5.3. Categories of levels of education
    • 6.5.4. Years of schooling
  • 6.6. Questions for women only
    • 6.6.1. Specification of data
    • 6.6.2. Categories of monthly periods status
    • 6.6.3. Age when periods stopped completely
    • 6.6.4. Use of sex hormones for menopausal symptoms
    • 6.6.5. Use of contraceptive pills or injections
  • 6.7. Use of aspirin
    • 6.7.1. Specification of data
    • 6.7.2. Use of aspirin
• 7. References
• Tables by data item
  • Table 1. Reporting Unit Aggregates, MONICA Collaborating Centres and Reporting Units
  • Table 6.1.2. Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) - mean of two measurements
  • Table 6.1.3. Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) - mean of two measurements
  • Table 6.1.4. Blood pressure categories
  • Table 6.1.5. Blood pressure categories among persons with high blood pressure
  • Table 6.1.6. Have you had your blood pressure measured in the last year? 
  • Table 6.2.2. Total cholesterol (mmol/l)
  • Table 6.2.3. HDL cholesterol (mmol/l)
  • Table 6.2.4. Proportion (%) of HDL cholesterol in total cholesterol
  • Table 6.2.5. Proportions (%) of those who have been told that they have high blood cholesterol
  • Table 6.2.6. Proportion (%) of categories of treatment for lowering blood cholesterol among those who have been told that they have high blood cholesterol
  • Table 6.2.7. Proportion (%) of those whose blood cholesterol was measured within one year
  • Table 6.3.2. Weight (kg)
  • Table 6.3.3. Height (cm)
  • Table 6.3.4. Body mass index (kg/m²)
  • Table 6.3.5. Waist circumference (cm)
  • Table 6.3.6. Hip circumference (cm)
  • Table 6.3.7. Waist to hip-ratio (%)
  • Table 6.4.2. Current smoking (including cigarette, pipe and cigar)
  • Table 6.4.3. Current cigarette smoking
  • Table 6.4.4. Daily cigarette smoking (current smokers and ex-smokers)
  • Table 6.4.5. Number of cigarettes smoked by population
  • Table 6.4.6. Number of cigarettes smoked by daily smokers
  • Table 6.5.2. Categories of marital status
  • Table 6.5.3. Categories of levels of education
  • Table 6.5.4. Years of schooling
  • Table 6.6.2. Categories of monthly periods status
  • Table 6.6.3. Age when periods stopped completely
  • Table 6.6.4. Use of sex hormones for menopausal symptoms
  • Table 6.6.5. Use of contraceptive pills or injections
  • Table 6.7.2. Use of aspirin
• Tables by RUA

Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe for thoughtful comments.

The MONICA Centres are funded predominantly by regional and national governments, research councils, and research charities. Coordination is the responsibility of the World Health Organization (WHO), assisted by local fund raising for congresses and workshops. WHO also supports the MONICA Data Centre (MDC) in Helsinki. Not covered by this general description is the ongoing generous support of the MDC by the National Public Health Institute of Finland, and a contribution to WHO from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA for support of the MDC and the Quality Control Centre for Event Registration in Dundee. The completion of the MONICA Project is generously assisted through a Concerted Action Grant from the European Community. Likewise appreciated are grants from ASTRA Hässle AB, Sweden, Hoechst AG, Germany, Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland, the Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier (IRIS), France, and Merck & Co. Inc., New Jersey, USA, to support data analysis and preparation of publications.

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