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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0xH7E8s. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background : This study aims to establish whether health reporting differs by education level and, if so, to determine the extent to which this biases the measurement of health inequalities among older Europeans. Methods : Data are from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) covering eight countries. Differential reporting of health by education is identified from ratings of anchoring vignettes that describe fixed health states. Ratings of own health in six domains (mobility, pain, sleep, breathing, emotional health and cognition) are corrected for differences in reporting using an extended ordered probit model. For each country and health domain, we compare the corrected with the uncorrected age-sex standardized high-to-low education rate ratio for the absence of a health problem. Results : Before correction for reporting differences across the 48 combinations of country by health domain, there was no inequality in health by education (P>0.05) in 32 of 48 cases. However, there were reporting differences by education (P
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