Creator:

Statistics Canada

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Nutrition, Obesity, and Body Mass

Tags:

• bias
• BMI
• direct measure
• measurement error
• obesity
• overweight
• self-report

Date:

2005

URL:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2008003/article/10680-eng.pdf

Annotation:

This study examines the feasibility of developing correction factors to adjust self-reported measures of body mass index (BMI) to more closely approximate measured values. Data are from the 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey (subsample 2), in which respondents were asked to report their height and weight, and were subsequently measured.