Vaillant Nicolas, Wolff François-Charles
LEM (UMR 8179 CNRS), Université Catholique de Lille (FLSEG, Centre de Recherche sur le Capital Humain) and Institut des Stratégies et Techniques de Communication, 58, rue du port / 59016 Lille cedex, France.
J Epidemiol Glob Health. 2012 Jun;2(2):83-98. doi: 10.1016/j.jegh.2012.04.003. Epub 2012 Jun 15.
This paper investigates the reliability of self-assessed measures of health using panel data collected in Albania by the World Bank in 2002, 2003 and 2004 through the Living Standard Measurement Study project. As the survey includes questions on a self-assessed measure of health and on more objective health problems, both types of information are combined with a view to understanding how respondents change their answers to the self-reported measures over time. Estimates from random effects ordered Probit models show that differences in self-reported subjective health between individuals are much more marked than those over time, suggesting a strong state dependence in subjective health status. The empirical analysis also reveals respondent consistency, from both a subjective and an objective viewpoint. Self-reported health is much more influenced by permanent shocks than by more transitory illness or injury.
本文利用世界银行2002年、2003年和2004年通过生活水平测量研究项目在阿尔巴尼亚收集的面板数据，研究了自我评估健康指标的可靠性。由于该调查包括关于自我评估健康指标以及更客观健康问题的问题，因此将这两种类型的信息结合起来，以了解受访者如何随着时间的推移改变他们对自我报告指标的回答。随机效应有序Probit模型的估计结果表明，个体之间自我报告的主观健康差异比随时间变化的差异更为显著，这表明主观健康状况存在很强的状态依赖性。实证分析还从主观和客观两个角度揭示了受访者的一致性。自我报告的健康状况受长期冲击的影响远大于受更短暂的疾病或伤害的影响。
