We compare our measure of reservation wage with self reported value (as it appears in the Italian LFS, see Table 5): the results are surprisingly similar.
Firstly, our results relied on self-report values, except BMI at 16 years.
This indicates that almost half of the respondents who are obese based on measured values are not categorised as obese by self-report values.
It is remarkable that only 10 out of 25 children with relatively high self-report values also scored relatively high on one or more of the other measures.
First, the motivational abilities of the AD cases might be truly lower than those of the MCI cases, and the caregivers observe this decline but the patients themselves do not observe it because of a reduced disease awareness ("anosognosia"), which results in similar self-report values [ 105].
Compared to a study that used the KINDL-R in mainly obese participants of an outpatient treatment [ 11], we found slightly higher self-report values for the total, emotional and the school score, very similar values for physical well-being, friends, and family, and notably higher values for self-esteem and weight-specific HRQoL.
In these plots, the differences between measured and self-measured values (measured minus self-reported) were plotted against the mean of measured and self-reported values.
For the women who self-reported values on both occasions (n=1,380), 11% (n=152) were assigned a different BMI category at the secondary questionnaire when compared with the primary questionnaire (Table 3), with 99% (n=150) changing only one category.
In this study, we estimated the misreporting of self-reported weight and height by comparing repeated self-reports with self-reported values followed by values measured by medical staff.
Self reporting a value of one indicated that a student put 'little or no effort' into the instrument; two represented 'some effort'; three represented 'close to my best effort'; while a four represented 'my best effort'.
Although the self-reporting of anthropometrics was biased, ICC's showed high concordance between measured and self-reported values.
