Table 2.

Age-adjusted sibling correlations of self-assessed health and education in the US sample (MIDUS) and Dutch sample (NKPS)

Type of sibling pair	US sample			Dutch sample
	N	Health	Education	N	Health	Education
All	1,274	0.16	0.40	2,289	0.17	0.37
Mixed	619	0.11	0.32	1,054	0.14	0.31
Same sex	655	0.19	0.48	1,235	0.21	0.42
Brothers	256	0.11	0.42	450	0.24	0.33
Sisters	399	0.25	0.50	785	0.19	0.48