Sentence examples for systematic misreporting from inspiring English sources
Kerkhofs and Lindeboom [6] assume that endogeneity of health is driven by systematic misreporting in subjective health questions.
Our study explains and shows how the systematic misreporting behavior affects socioeconomic disparities in BMI, and how the misclassification affects disparities in the risk of obesity.
This crossover phenomenon was challenged due to concerns that vital statistics data reflect systematic misreporting of age among elderly African Americans (Coale & Kisker, 1986; Preston et al., 1996).
Whether there exists systematic misreporting and misclassification across socioeconomic groups is an important issue for a wide range of obesity research where self-reported weight and height are used, and where obesity is defined as BMI ≥ 30.
Such challenges are familiar in the context of Liberia with the age pyramid suggested from the 2007 national DHS [ 16] judged to be 'implausible' (p. 8) due to systematic misreporting.
Rather, we observe systematic differences in misreporting and misclassification across different groups and conclude that these differences matter for the estimation of socioeconomic disparities in BMI and obesity.
The consequence of this systematic difference in misreporting across education is that when analyzing educational disparities in BMI derived from self-reported weight and height, the resulting disparities are underestimated (i.e. biased towards zero), compared to disparities derived from objectively measured data.
The methods may suffer from different errors, for example random errors in sample surveys or systematic errors due to misreporting.
For example, a 1970s New York City study of medical examiner data estimated that suicide was underenumerated by 80% for Blacks compared to 42% for Whites [ 3], and is consistent with other evidence that variation in suicide misreporting between Blacks and Whites is systematic [ 4, 24].
It goes far beyond misreporting SAT and ACT scores.
Last year, I caught Barnes & Noble misreporting the Nook's weight.
