[Futuregen] VB: EJOA: Your manuscript entitled Cohort specific disability trajectories among older women and men in Europe 2004-2017. - [EMID:986844694a3dd6a2]

Fri Sep 17 13:07:54 CEST 2021

Dear Stefan,
Thank you very much for sharing this. I agree, the review is very 
positive. Well done!!
It's not a very long deadline, so if you need any help just give us a shout.
Have a nice weekend!
Ricardo

On 17/09/2021 11:41, Stefan Fors wrote:
> Friends, Comrades, Co-authors,
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> The reviews for the cohort-disabilities manuscript is finally in (see below). I think they are generally positive - and I'm confident that we can revise the manuscript (more or less) accordingly. I will have a chat to Johan and decide on a strategy, and then we'll get back to you once we've started the revisions.
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> Have a lovely weekend,
>
> Stefan
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> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
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> Ref.:
> Ms. No. EJOA-D-21-00095
> Cohort specific disability trajectories among older women and men in Europe 2004-2017.
> European Journal of Ageing
>
> Dear Dr. Fors,
>
> First of all, I again apologize for the delay in responding. We currently experience difficulties in finding reviewers and - despite repeated efforts - I have only managed to engage one expert reviewer. To speed up the process, though, I decided to proceed on its basis, as well as I have read through your paper carefully.
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> As you will see the reviewer delivered quite a positive report with few concerns and useful comments for you to consider. From my own reading, I have some comments to add (see below). Overall I think that a major revision is required prior to a final decision regarding its suitability for publication in the EJA.
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> Own comments:
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> -       I think the paper is really well-structured and presents some novel findings (i.e. cohort specific analyses). However, after reading the Discussion, I thought it would also be good to have more ideas and a better framing of your main findings. What are possible reasons for country difference (e.g. higher among younger people in Eastern)? Why are sex-differences greater in eastern and southern countries? Given that SHARE allows you to study such differences I think a broader conceptual framing and discussion (beside the empirical analysis) would make your paper stronger. What was the rational (beside the fact that this is how is was done before) to regroup countries into the four categories you have used? Do these country-group have similar policies? Do they differ in terms of gender-related aspects or family-policies? This not necessarily needs to be mentioned in the Introduction, but I think the Discussion needs to come up with some ideas. Maybe also because of different
> socioeconomic circumstances? There is much literature on this (based on SHARE as well) that could be useful and incorporated here (see e.g. https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1007%2Fs10433-019-00524-y&data=04%7C01%7Cstefan.fors%40ki.se%7C62f4d8e909184486e2d908d979ba665f%7Cbff7eef1cf4b4f32be3da1dda043c05d%7C0%7C0%7C637674663756610374%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=sBHF63q28dDa4VKzqhju7Bgi1SfQ%2BPs0qB%2FomeLzPNc%3D&reserved=0).
> -       The results section is rather long and could be shortened by highlighting the most important findings from tables and figures. Also, I wondered why you have decided to present findings of pooled analyses in Figure 1 (since this is not really related to your main research question). Why not focussing on the country-specific analyses?
> -       Please briefly specify how estimated probabilities (denoted “estimated probabilities” in the figure) were exactly predicted? Are these average marginal predictions (based on “margins” in Stata)?
> -       I generally liked the fact that your models do not include too many variables, but I nevertheless wondered if you should not include additional variables to strengthen your finding on country differences and assuring that differences are not due to country-compositions (e.g. different educational background or different workforce composition?). These indicators are available in SHARE and could be included.
> -       Given that IADL and ADL are also available as count-variables (number of limitations), I think the reader may wonder why you have decided to use a binary indicator in both cases (1+ limitations). This includes loss of information and in case you have run the same analyses with count-variables you may mention this as an additional test of robustness? Or justify your decision more explicitly.
> -       Please carefully check and follow the guidelines for authors, including change of abstract (unstructured) and change of reference style (incl. references in the text by name and year in parentheses).
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> For your guidance, the reviewer comments are appended below.
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> If you decide to revise the work, please submit a list of changes or a rebuttal against each point which is being raised when you submit the revised manuscript.
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> Your revision is due by 29-10-2021.
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> To submit a revision, go to https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.editorialmanager.com%2Fejoa%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cstefan.fors%40ki.se%7C62f4d8e909184486e2d908d979ba665f%7Cbff7eef1cf4b4f32be3da1dda043c05d%7C0%7C0%7C637674663756610374%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=exWdBDEMFRHfd1frEnUxoW7gADjRbaoCQLypoEgUgRE%3D&reserved=0 and log in as an Author. You will see a menu item call Submission Needing Revision. You will find your submission record there.
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> Yours sincerely,
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> Morten Wahrendorf
> Editor
> European Journal of Ageing
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> COMMENTS TO THE AUTHOR:
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> Reviewer #2: Title:
> Cohort specific disability trajectories among older women and men in Europe 2004-2017
>
> The paper examines the specific disabilities of old age (cohort) in Europe using SHARE datasets. Overall, this is a well-written manuscript and nicely presented.
>
> I believe there are some aspects that could improve better the paper, and below are my comments:
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> 1.      It is would be good to describe more why the authors decided to use mixed effect logistic regression (and perhaps compare with other methods, such as mixed effect probit regression or latent growth model).
> 2.      What does the "robustness of the estimates" mean?
> 3.      Related to point 2 above, what is its connection with four regions-based groups?
> 4.      It would be great to describe reason to create the cohort birth year group 1920-1929, 1930-1939, 1940-1949, etc.
> 5.      Is it possible to conduct sensitivity analysis using complete cases only? Or others?
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