Assessing the Effectiveness of Anchoring Vignettes in Bias Reduction for Socioeconomic Disparities in Self-rated Health among Chinese Adults

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6169568
AutoresH Xu (0000-0001-9227-8904, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, autor correspondente), Y Xie (0000-0002-3240-8620, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, and Peking University, Beijing, China)
Ano2015
Volume46
Fascículo1
Páginas84-120
Data de publicação2015-09-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Methodology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0081-1750 • E-ISSN: 1467-9531
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0081175015599808
PMID27721523
OpenAlexW2339261265
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas50

The authors investigate how reporting heterogeneity may bias socioeconomic and demographic disparities in self-rated general health, a widely used health indicator, and how such bias can be adjusted by using new anchoring vignettes designed in the 2012 wave of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). The authors find systematic variation by sociodemographic characteristics in thresholds used by respondents in rating their general health status. Such threshold shifts are often nonparallel in that the effect of a certain group characteristic on the shift is stronger at one level than another. The authors find that the resulting bias of measuring group differentials in self-rated health can be too substantial to be ignored. They demonstrate that the CFPS anchoring vignettes prove to be an effective survey instrument in obtaining bias-adjusted estimates of health disparities not only for the CFPS sample but also for an independent sample from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Effective adjustment for reporting heterogeneity may require vignette administration only to a small subsample (20 percent to 30 percent of the full sample). Using a single vignette can be as effective as using more in terms of anchoring, but the results are sensitive to the choice of vignette design

Anchoring · Environmental health · Health equity · Public health · Self-rated health · Socioeconomic status · Employment and Welfare Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology