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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 Sweden3.48
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 Japan 3.03
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 = 0.719649 X +4.464
Correlation coefficient (r)0.352
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.124

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 52110.944029 X -122424.765
Correlation coefficient (r)0.564
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.318

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.595699 X +68.813
Correlation coefficient (r)0.334
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.158975 X +1.089
Correlation coefficient (r)0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -4.931524 X +29.632
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.262
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069