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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access Assessing the adequacy of self-reported alcohol abuse measurement across time and ethnicity: cross-cultural equivalence across Hispanics and Caucasians in 1992, non-equivalence in 2001– 2002 Adam C Carle Address: Department of Psychology, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA Email: Adam C Carle - adam.carle@ Published: 19 February 2009 Received: 15 September 2008 Accepted: 19 February 2009 BMC Public Health 2009, 9:60 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-60 This article is available from: /1471-2458/9/60 © 2009 Carle; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Do estimates of alcohol abuse reflect true levels across United States Hispanics and non- Hispanic Caucasians, or does culturally-based, systematic measurement error (i.e., measurement bias) affect estimates? Likewise, given that recent estimates suggest alcohol abuse has increased among US Hispanics, the field should also ask, Does cross-ethnic change in alcohol abuse across time reflect true change or does measurement bias influence change estimates? Methods: To address these questions, I used confirmatory factor analyses for ordered-categorical measures to probe for measurement bias on two large