How fat is where you live?

[Julia9054]

"The data is based on adjusted, self-reported height and weight measurements which have been collected via questions in the Active People Survey by Sport England since January 2012. This provides data to monitor excess weight in adults (aged 16 years and over) at local authority level for the Public Health Outcomes Framework. PHE has undertaken extensive analysis of the data to ensure it provides a high quality and robust indicator of the prevalence of excess weight among the adult population

Thank you.
Interested to know what formula they use to adjust for how many people are in denial about their weight or who, basically, lie!

 

[green1]

Thank you.
Interested to know what formula they use to adjust for how many people are in denial about their weight or who, basically, lie!

Why would they need to when they are using a measure as imprecise as BMI?