Author’s response to reviews Title: How Participants Report Their Health Status: Cognitive Interviews of Self-Rated Health Across Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Age, and Educational Attainment Authors:
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Thank you to the editor and the reviewers for your careful consideration of our manuscript, “How Participants Report Their Health Status: Cognitive Interviews of Self-Rated Health Across Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Age, and Educational Attainment." Responding to your comments has greatly improved the quality of this manuscript. Below we address the methodological and substantive issues raised in each of your comments. Given the amount of information being moved to and from appendices in order to address changes, we did not use red to indicate changes in the document. Rather, we note the page and paragraph where each comment that warranted a change to the manuscript is addressed.
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