The determinants of misreporting weight and height: The role of social norms

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 78-91

  Gil, Joan ^a   Mora, Toni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anthropometric biases; Height and BMI; obesity; Self reported weight; Social norms; Spain

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPAIN; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; SPAIN; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650676704     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2010.05.016     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. G.A. Akerlof, and R.E. Kranton Economics and identity Quarterly Journal of Economics 115 2000 715 754
2. A. Aromaa, P. Koponen, J. Tafforeau, and C. Vermeire Evaluation of health interview surveys and health examination surveys in the EU European Journal of Public Health 13 Suppl. 3 2003 67 72
3. S. Averett, and S. Korenman The economic reality of the beauty myth Journal of Human Resources 31 1996 304 330
4. O. Baron-Epel, and G. Kaplan General subjective health status or age-related subjective health status: does it make a difference? Social Science & Medicine 53 2001 1373 1381
5. Blanchflower, D.G., Oswald, A.J., van Landeghem, B., 2009. Imitative obesity and relative utility. IZA Discussion Paper Series No. 4010.
6. L. Blume, and S.N. Durlauf Identifying social interactions: a review J. Oakes, J.S. Kaufman, Methods in Social Epidemiology 2006 Jossey-Bass San Francisco 287 315
7. C. Bolton-Smith, M. Woodward, H. Tunstall-Perdoe, and C. Morrison Accuracy of the estimated prevalence of obesity from self-reported height and weight in an adult Scottish population Journal of Epidemiology Community Health 54 2000 143 148
8. G. Boström, and F. Diderichsen Socioeconomic differentials in misclassification of height, weight and body mass index based on questionnaires data International Journal of Epidemiology 26 4 1997 860 866
9. W.A. Brock, and S.N. Durlauf Discrete choice with social interactions The Review of Economic Studies 68 2 2001 235 260
10. M.A. Burke, and F. Heiland Social dynamics of obesity Economic Inquiry 45 3 2007 571 591
11. J. Cawley An instrumental variables approach to measuring the effect of body weight on employment disability Health Services Research 35 5 2000 1159 1179
12. J. Cawley The impact of obesity on wages Journal of Human Resources 39 2 2004 451 474
13. J. Cawley, and R.V. Burkhauser Beyond BMI: the value of more accurate measures of fatness and obesity in social science research Journal of Health Economics 27 2 2008 519 529
14. S.-Y. Chou, M. Grossman, and H. Saffer An economic analysis of adult obesity: results from the Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System Journal of Health Economics 23 2004 565 587
15. J. Costa-Font, and J. Gil What lies behind socio-economic inequalities in obesity in Spain? A decomposition approach Food Policy 33 2008 61 73
16. M.E. Danubio, G. Miranda, M.G. Vinciguerra, E. Vecchi, and F. Rufo Comparison of self-reported and measured height and weight: implications for obesity research among young adults Economics and Human Biology 6 1 2008 181 190
17. F. Etilé Social norms, ideal body weight and food attitudes Health Economics 16 9 2007 945 966
18. R.F. Gillum, and C.T. Sempos Ethnic variation in validity of classification of overweight and obesity using self-reported weight and height in American women and men: the NHANES III Nutrition Journal 4 27 2005 1 8
19. W. Groot Adaptation and scale of reference bias in self-assessments of quality of life Journal of Health Economics 19 2000 403 420
20. D. Gunnell, L. Berney, P. Holland, M. Maynard, D. Blane, S. Frankel, and G. Davey How accurately are height, weight and length reported by the elderly, and how closely are they related to measurements recorded in childhood? International Journal of Epidemiology 29 3 2000 456 464
21. A.S. Hadi Identifying multiple outliers in multivariate data Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B 54 3 1992 761 771
22. Hernández-Quevedo, C., Jones, A.M., Rice, N., 2005. Reporting bias and heterogeneity in self-assessed health. Evidence from the BHPS. The University of York, HEDG Working Paper 05/04.
23. International Obesity Task Force Obesity in Europe. EU Platform Briefing Paper 2005 IOTF Brussels March
24. M.F. Kuczmarski, R.J. Kuczmarski, and M. Najjar Effects of age on validity of self-reported height, weight and body mass index: findings from the Third NHANES 1988-1994 Journal of the American Dietetic Association 101 1 2001 28 34
25. Lakdawalla, D., Philipson, T., 2002. The growth of obesity and technological change: a theoretical and empirical investigation. NBER WP No. 8965.
26. M. Lindeboom, and E. van Doorslaer Cut-point shift and index shift in self-reported health Journal of Health Economics 23 2004 1083 1099
27. M. Lindeboom Health and work of older workers A.M. Jones, Elgar Companion to Health Economics 2006 Edward Elgar Cheltenham
28. C.F. Manski Identification of endogenous social effects: the reflection problem The Review of Economic Studies 60 1993 531 542
29. S. Morris Body mass index and occupational attainment Journal of Health economics 25 2006 347 364
30. NIH, 1998 Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adult's: The Evidence Report. National Institutes of Health Publication No. 98-4083 (NIH: Washington, D.C.).
31. I. Niedhammer, I. Bugel, S. Bonenfant, M. Goldberg, and A. Leclerc Validity of self-reported weight and height in the French GAZEL cohort International Journal of Obesity 24 9 2000 1111 1118
32. A.J. Oswald, and N. Powdthavee Obesity, unhappiness and the challenge of affluence: theory and evidence Economic Journal 117 2007 F441 454
33. A.J. Oswald On the curvature of the reporting function from objective reality to subjective feelings Economics Letters 100 2008 369 372
34. F. Paccaud, V. Wietlisbach, and M. Rickenbach Body mass index: comparing mean values and prevalence rates from telephone and examination surveys Revue Epidémiologique et de Santé Publique 49 1 2001 33 40
35. T. Pischon General and abdominal adiposity and risk of death in Europe New England Journal of Medicine 359 20 2008 2105 2120
36. M.W. Plankey, J. Stevens, K.M. Flegal, and P.F. Rust Prediction equations do not eliminate systematic reporting error in self-reported body mass index Obesity Research 5 4 1997 308 314
37. N. Powdthavee Ill-health as a household norm: evidence from other people's health problems Social Science & Medicine 68 2009 251 259
38. J. Quiles, and J. Vioque Validez de los datos antropométricos declarados para la determinación de la prevalencia de la obesidad Medicina Clínica 106 1996 725 729
39. J. Sobal, and A.J. Stunkard Socioeconomic status and obesity: a review of the literature Psychological Bulletin 105 1989 260 275
40. E.A. Spencer, P.N. Appleby, G.K. Davey, and T.J. Key Validity of self-reported height and weight in 4808 EPIC-Oxford participants Public Health Nutrition 5 4 2002 561 565
41. World Health Organization-WHO, 2000. Obesity: Preventing and Managing the Global Epidemic. Report of a WHO consultation. Technical Report Series No. 894.
42. Q. Zhang, and Y. Wang Socioeconomic inequalities of obesity in the United States: do gender, age and ethnicity matter? Social Science & Medicine 58 2004 1171 1180