The weight history section of the NHANES interview contained the following two questions: (1) "How tall are you without shoes?" This question could be answered by the respondent in terms of feet and inches or meters and centimeters; and (2) "How much do you weigh without clothes or shoes?" This question could be answered in terms of pounds or kilograms. The parallel NHIS questions were: (1) "How tall are you without shoes?" and (2) "How much do you weigh without shoes?"
