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

Gil, Joan; Mora, Toni

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2010.05.016

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“…Gil and Mora (2011) reported similar results for a similar age group, with the difference between declared and actual data amounting to 2%. In our study, the subjects from both sexes declared lower body weight (men by 1.81%, women by 1.59%), whereas in the study by Oliviera et al (2009) men with diagnosed coronary artery disease declared their body weight to be higher by 0.5 kg, on average, and women, similarly to our study, lower by 1.51%.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 54%

“…The achieved result is higher than those of Gil and Mora (2011), Kuczmarski et al (2001) or Jin-Mann (2010, as all these authors have reported a difference corresponding to one unit of the marker. The studies by Oliveira et al (2009), McAdams (2007 and Kuczmarski et al (2001) conducted among older patients with overweight or obesity have shown results similar to ours.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…In the population studied by Gil and Mora (2011), the difference was lower and amounted to 0.9%. The analysis of dimorphic differences for this variable has shown that the difference between the declared and actual data corresponded to 2.5cm for the male population.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…A number of studies, carried out in different environments, have shown the utility of using this methodology of obtaining basic anthropometric data (Krzyżanowska and Umławska 2002, Lucca and Moura 2010, Bolton-Smith et al 2000. On the other hand, different studies provide contrary results and advocate direct measurement as the only reliable way of obtaining data (Gajewska and Gromulska 2009, Gil and Mora 2011, Oliveira et al 2009). Significantly, these studies base mostly on the analysis of data collected from healthy subjects and a number of them refer to a relatively young study population.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Measured versus self-reported body height and body mass in patients after an acute coronary syndrome

Domagała

Kałka

Kurc-Darak

et al. 2017

Anthropological Review

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The basic anthropometric data describing a person in the broadest context are body weight and height, two of the most frequently analyzed somatometric parameters. The same is true I in relation to clinical patients. The aim of the present study was to compare the self-reported and actual body weight, height and BMI in patients suffering from coronary artery disease and undergoing cardiac rehabilitation. The study sample consisted of 100 patients treated for coronary artery disease. The patients were asked to state their body weight and height. At the same time a three-person study team took measurements, which were later the basis for verification and objective assessment of the data provided by the patients. Statistical analysis was performed with Statistics 11.0 PL software. The analysis of mean results for the assessed group of patients has shown the presence of statistically significant differences between declared and actual data. The differences were observed for both male and female study population. It has been proven that the subjects declare greater body height (mean value 1.697 m vs. 1.666 m) and lower body weight (80.643 kg vs. 82.051 kg). Based on the data from surveys and direct measurements, the body mass index for the self-reported and actual data was calculated. A comparison of these values has shown considerable statistically significant differences. The differences between declared and actual data point to highly subjective self-assessment, which disqualifies the declared data in the context of monitoring of treatment and rehabilitation processes. The authors believe that actual data should be used in direct trial examination of patients suffering from coronary artery disease who presented with acute coronary syndrome.

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“…In contrast, men do not seem to be sensitive to social norms. Similarly, Gil and Mora (2011) show that women tend to underestimate their weight and that the gap between measured and self-reported weight is affected by social norms: it increases when the ideal weight decreases in the reference group.…”

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confidence: 96%

Self-reported health and gender: The role of social norms

Caroli

Weber-Baghdiguian

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents inIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first replicate the standard result that women report worse health than men, whatever the health outcome we consider -i.e. general self-assessed health but also more specific symptoms such as skin problems, backache, muscular pain in upper and lower limbs, headache and eyestrain, stomach ache, respiratory difficulties, depression and anxiety, fatigue and insomnia. We then proxy social norms by the gender structure of the workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate that individuals in workplaces where women are a majority tend to report worse health than individuals employed in male-dominated work environments, be they men or women. These results are robust to controlling for a large array of working condition indicators, which allows us to rule out that the poorer health status reported by individuals working in female-dominated environments could be due to worse job quality. We interpret this evidence as suggesting that social norms associated with specific gender environments play an important role in explaining differences in health-reporting behaviours across gender, at least in the workplace.JEL Classification: I12, I19, J16

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