Who is telling the truth? Biases in self-reported physical and cognitive health status of older Europeans

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/86905 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/86905 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/86905 archive 353 disk0/00/01/57/92 2019-03-12 14:19:12 2021-08-27 17:31:31 2019-03-12 14:19:12 monograph show 1 Spitzer S. 9158 0000-0002-2114-7947 Weber D. 1931 0000-0001-7873-0458 Wolfgang Lutz, Program Director World Population Program Who is telling the truth? Biases in self-reported physical and cognitive health status of older Europeans pub prog_pop This paper quantifies the contribution of individual characteristics to the bias in self-reported physical and cognitive health status of the 50-plus population in 19 European countries. The analysis utilises micro-data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to compare performance-tested outcomes of mobility and memory with their self-reported equivalents. Relative importance analysis shows that the bias in self-reported health is mostly due to reporting heterogeneities between countries and age groups, whereas gender contributes little to the discrepancy. For self-reported cognition specifically, education is an important factor explaining the misreporting. Southern as well as Central and Eastern Europeans are much more likely to misreport their physical and cognitive abilities than Northern and Western Europeans. Overall, our results suggest that comparisons of self-reported health between countries and age groups are prone to significant biases, whereas comparisons between genders are credible for most European countries. 2019-03 published WP-19-002 3082 325 public working_paper IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria Reassessing Ageing from a Population Perspective (RE-AGEING, FP7 323947) The Demography of Sustainable Human Wellbeing (EmpoweredLifeYears, H2020 741105) FALSE yes info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/323947/EU//RE-AGING; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/741105/EU//EmpoweredLifeYears info:eu-repo/semantics/book info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess