0 present participle of misreport
1 to make known information that is not completely true or correct:
Because numerous studies have indicated that respondents may not acknowledge antisocial and illicit behaviours to an interviewer, the results are potentially affected by misreporting.
However, none of the above approaches focuses on characteristics of the misreporting itself.
Finally, we examined size of family (number of living children) as a possible factor in misreporting.
Whereas men appear simply to forget as a function of age, for women, misreporting is a more complex phenomenon bound up with traditional values.
A low reliability score among women was found to be strongly associated with misreporting, while for men there was no significant relationship.
If men's misreporting can be attributed mainly to forgetting, on the other hand, it is less likely to be reflected in their reliability scores.
To some extent the more detailed questioning of women probably resulted in a reduction of female misreporting.
Since all taxes are deducted before payment, there should be no reason for misreporting of the amount received.
