Health Problems and Disability of Elderly Individuals in Two Population Groups from Same Geographical Location

This paper focuses on the issue of reporting errors in subjective health measures. We state assumptions under which we can use relatively simple methods to assess the relative importance of state dependent reporting errors in individual responses to health questions. The methods proposed in this paper could be used directly to purge reporting biases from the subjective health responses to generate unbiased measures of health that can be used in subsequent analyses. The methods are applied on Dutch data , It may be clear from the discussion in...