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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 27.
Published in final edited form as: Demogr Res. 2009 Jun 23;20:817–874. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.31

Table 4.

Tendencies to by systematically optimistic or pessimistic: Distribution of survey response across different subjective probabilities

Five-year mortality
1st quartile 2nd quartile 3rd quartile 4th quartile Total
One-year mortality
 1st quartile 69.12 17.26 13.31 1.57 29.09
 2nd quartile 30.04 40.98 13.31 2.35 24.15
 3rd quartile 0.32 41.20 50.87 14.29 25.18
 4th quartile 0.53 0.56 22.50 81.79 21.58
Total 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
Infant mortality
 1st quartile 55.93 41.54 30.16 27.59 40.78
 2nd quartile 16.37 20.27 18.10 15.83 17.73
 3rd quartile 11.65 20.60 20.00 21.63 17.95
 4th quartile 16.05 17.59 31.75 34.95 23.53
Total 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
Win if play Bawo
 1st quartile 33.61 31.59 30.79 28.53 31.42
 2nd quartile 23.95 25.03 30.16 24.45 25.62
 3rd quartile 21.85 22.47 21.11 24.45 22.41
 4th quartile 20.59 20.91 17.94 22.57 20.55
Total 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00

Note: The diagonal elements in each panel are indicated in bold.