There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ acrosspopulations or even across subgroups of … a population. This reporting heterogeneity mayinvalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper … index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National PopulationHealth Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility …

coverage for health care but earnings losses are uninsured. Even with comprehensive health care entitlement, severe illness …

Anchoring vignettes are increasingly used to identify and correct heterogeneity in the reporting of health, work … valid under a less stringent assumption. We apply these tests to cognitive functioning and mobility related health problems … using data from the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing. Response consistency is rejected for both health domains …

There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of … a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This …-point shift and index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National Population Health Survey data. The McMaster Health …