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Chapters

  1. Health Survey for England predicting height, weight and body mass index from self-reported data
  2. Introduction
  3. Literature review
  4. Differences between self-reported and interviewer-measured height, weight and BMI using HSE 2011-2016 data
  5. Developing and using prediction equations
  6. Authors and acknowledgements
  7. Appendix 1: Technical information
  8. Appendix 2: Glossary
  9. Appendix 3: References