Obesity and its relation to employment incomes: does the bias in self-reported BMI matter?
| dc.contributor.author | Perks, Tom | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-07T17:47:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-07T17:47:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | Open access article. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC BY 3.0) applies | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This study explores what difference, if any, the bias in self-reported body mass index (BMI) has on our understanding of the relationship between body size and income attainment. To accomplish this, aggregated data from Cycle 1 and Cycle 2 of the Canada Health Measures Survey, in which information on both self-reported and measured BMI was collected, are used. Based on subsamples of female and male employees, OLS regression analyses contrasting the effect of self-reported and measured BMI on income show that for women, self-reported BMI leads to underestimates of a negative body size effect, whereas for men, self-reported BMI leads to overestimates of a positive body size effect. Additional analyses examining the appropriateness of correction factors to improve the accuracy of self-reported BMI effect estimates suggest correction factors do little to reduce these systematic errors. | en_US |
| dc.description.peer-review | Yes | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Perks, T. A. (2015). Obesity and its relation to employment income: Does the bias in self-reported BMI matter? Canadian Studies in Population, 42(3/4), 39-48. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10133/5675 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Alberta | en_US |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Sociology | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Arts and Science | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Lethbridge | en_US |
| dc.publisher.url | https://dx.doi.org/10.25336/P6SS36 | |
| dc.subject | Body mass index | en_US |
| dc.subject | Income attainment | en_US |
| dc.subject | Measured and self-reported | en_US |
| dc.subject | Correction factors | en_US |
| dc.subject | Self-reported BMI | |
| dc.subject | Measured BMI | |
| dc.subject | Employment income | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Body size | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Income | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Obesity | |
| dc.title | Obesity and its relation to employment incomes: does the bias in self-reported BMI matter? | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |