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Question: In general, would you say your health is...?
Choices: "Excellent" "Very good" "Good" "Fair" "Poor"
Average score (as "Excellent"=5 "Very good"=4 "Good"=3 "Fair"=2 "Poor"=1)
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden3.48
2 Republic of Korea3.41
3 United States3.40
4 Australia3.33
5 United Kingdom3.26
6 France 3.13
7 Japan3.03
8 Germany2.99

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.950539 X +3.572
Correlation coefficient (r)0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 35721.684277 X -66206.430
Correlation coefficient (r)0.435
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.189

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -2.189981 X +88.951
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.199811 X +2.164
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.114
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 12.674184 X -29.197
Correlation coefficient (r)0.529
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.280