Evaluation of the quality of coding of job episodes collected by self questionnaires among French retired men for use in a job-exposure matrix

Table 5

Subjects’ asbestos exposure status according to self report and according to the matrix in both coding series

		Exposure according to subject
		Not completed	Exposed	Not exposed	Doesn’t know	Total
Exposure according to matrix
Not classified	1st series	0	18	18	18	54
	2nd series	0	14	18	16	48
Exposed	1st series	3	99	117	84	303
	2nd series	3	102	126	86	317
Not exposed	1st series	2	3	45	18	68
	2nd series	2	4	36	18	60
Total	1st series or 2nd series	5	120	180	120	425