Table 1. Characteristics of respondents and satisfaction with the health system in 21 European Union countries, World Health Survey for 2003^a,b.

Country	n		Female %	Age under 65 years %	High school complete %	Very satisfied %		Fairly satisfied %	Neutral %		Fairly dissatisfied %		Very dissatisfied %
Austria	1 055		62.4	85.7	37.0	70.4		21.7	4.0		2.4		1.5
Belgium	1 012		56.4	83.4	75.2	50.3		39.1	6.0		3.0		1.6
Czech Republic	935		52.7	79.6	67.1	10.4		42.6	27.9		17.1		2.1
Denmark	1 003		52.6	76.6	46.3	54.4		37.9	3.0		3.8		1.0
Estonia	1 012		63.7	77.2	53.4	2.3		25.7	31.9		26.1		14.1
Finland	1 013		55.4	71.7	47.5	19.6		58.1	8.5		10.9		2.9
France	1 008		59.9	86.4	70.3	37.6		46.5	10.6		4.0		1.4
Germany	1 259		59.6	74.7	31.3	19.8		45.2	15.8		13.6		5.5
Greece	1 000		50.0	70.1	47.3	16.7		31.3	24.8		13.1		14.1
Hungary	1 419		58.4	75.9	48.6	8.0		25.7	44.2		15.1		7.0
Ireland	1 014		54.7	84.7	70.0	32.3		37.5	9.6		8.1		12.6
Italy	1 000		57.4	77.3	52.7	7.2		41.8	24.2		15.9		10.9
Latvia	856		66.7	71.0	49.3	3.7		28.8	27.6		28.9		11.1
Luxembourg	700		51.1	85.0	55.3	28.6		47.3	11.7		11.0		1.4
Netherlands	1 091		67.5	84.7	68.1	28.2		49.7	8.5		10.8		2.8
Portugal	1 030		62.0	68.9	21.5	3.9		46.7	21.7		19.5		8.1
Slovakia	2 519		61.3	93.1	82.3	1.3		26.2	42.3		21.8		8.4
Slovenia	585		53.7	78.4	54.0	10.6		41.2	27.5		13.6		8.1
Spain	12 023		58.7	67.5	29.1	10.8		44.5	30.0		9.4		5.3
Sweden	1 000		58.4	73.7	57.9	28.9		38.9	13.0		16.5		2.7
United Kingdom	1 200		63.2	71.0	41.5	35.4		39.2	9.3		9.9		6.3

^a Numbers may not add up to exactly 100% due to rounding errors.
^b Satisfaction data are weighted by post-stratification sampling weights.
Data from the World Health Survey for 2003.²⁵