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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 France3.13
7 Japan 3.03
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 = 0.731309 X +4.391
Correlation coefficient (r)0.258
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.067

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 27475.335121 X -38175.247
Correlation coefficient (r)0.419
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -2.564790 X +90.208
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.212
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -0.222573 X +2.222
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.137
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 11.676392 X -22.842
Correlation coefficient (r)0.359
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.129