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Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source BioMed Central Research Open Access Potential sources of bias in the use of individuals recall of the frequency of exposure to air pollution for use in exposure assessment in epidemiological studies: a cross-sectional survey 1 2 3 Paul R Hunter* , Karen Bickerstaff and Maria A Davies Address: 1School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK, 2School of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK and 3Health Protection Agency, Countess of Chester Health Park, Chester CH2 1UL, UK Email: Paul R Hunter* - paul.hunter@uea.ac.uk; Karen Bickerstaff - K.Bickerstaff@uea.ac.uk; Maria A Davies - maria.davies@.uk * Corresponding author Published: 31 March 2004 Received: 17 February 2004 Accepted: 31 March 2004 Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2004, 3:3 This article is available from: /content/3/1/3 © 2004 Hunter et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the articles original URL. Abstract Background: In a previous study it has been shown that mean population perception of air pollution correlates well with physical measures of actual air pollution and could be used as a measure of exposure to air pollution, at lea