Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86021 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 03-042/3
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
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 proposes a test fordifferential reporting in ordered response models which allows us to distinguish betweencut-point shift and index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National PopulationHealth Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility Index (HUI) is used as a more objective healthmeasure than the simple 5-point scale of self-assessed health. We find clear evidence of indexshifting and cut-point shifting for age and gender, but not for income, education or language.
Subjects: 
health measurement
ordered response models
cut point shift
index shift
Canada.
JEL: 
D30
D31
I10
I12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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