Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20552 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1286
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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 paper proposes a test for differential reporting in ordered response models which allows us to distinguish between cut-point shift and index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National Population Health Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility Index (HUI) is used as a more objective health measure than the simple 5-point scale of self-assessed health. We find clear evidence of index shifting and cut-point shifting for age and gender, but not for income, education or language.
Subjects: 
hierarchical ordered probit
health measurement
cut-point shift
index shift
Canada
JEL: 
I12
I10
D31
D30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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