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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland3.82
2 Poland3.53
3 New Zealand3.51
4 Austria3.50
5 Israel3.49
5 Switzerland3.49
7 Sweden 3.48
8 Republic of Korea3.41
9 United States3.40
10 Australia3.33
11 Mexico3.30
12 Norway3.27
13 United Kingdom3.26
14 Belgium3.14
15 France3.13
16 Slovakia3.11
17 Czech Republic3.07
18 Japan3.03
19 Germany2.99
20 Slovenia2.97
21 Finland2.95
22 Chile2.94
23 Hungary2.82
24 Latvia2.76

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.583181 X +4.861
Correlation coefficient (r)0.349
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 55822.536221 X -134078.419
Correlation coefficient (r)0.556
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.309

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 4.658533 X +64.876
Correlation coefficient (r)0.319
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.170383 X +1.075
Correlation coefficient (r)0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -2.592771 X +19.286
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038