Table 5.

“Predictive” health equation

	Male				Female
	Estimates		t-values		Estimates		t-values
Predictor	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max	Min	Max
(Age – 65)/10	–0.431	–0.104	–8.2	–3.4	–0.211	–0.069	–9.7	–3.2
[(Age – 65)/10]2	–0.072	0.063	–2.4	2.6	–0.032	0.040	–2.4	1.2
[(Age – 65)/10]3	–0.045	0.034	–2.4	2.6	–0.024	0.007	–2.9	0.9
Secondary educ.	0.035	0.185	0.6	4.1	–0.001	0.176	0.0	4.1
Tertiary educ.	0.085	0.266	1.1	5.4	–0.003	0.318	–0.1	6.6
Household size	–0.093	0.053	–3.4	2.0	–0.081	0.054	–3.9	2.0
Living w/spouse	–0.038	0.187	–1.0	1.9	–0.055	0.162	–1.6	3.4
IHS networth	–0.003	0.019	–0.7	4.5	0.006	0.017	1.7	5.8
Underweight	–1.221	0.169	–5.5	1.1	–0.290	0.023	–3.7	0.4
Overweight	–0.075	0.029	–1.4	0.6	–0.150	–0.043	–5.5	–1.2
Obese Class I	–0.295	–0.081	–4.0	–1.7	–0.290	–0.153	–7.4	–2.8
Obese Class II and III	–0.563	–0.065	–4.4	–0.6	–0.567	–0.181	–8.2	–2.0
Missing educ.	–0.225	0.234	–2.6	2.1	–0.440	0.277	–3.3	3.5
Missing BMI	–0.905	0.482	–2.5	4.1	–0.296	0.112	–4.1	1.1
Constant	–0.544	0.049	–4.9	0.6	–0.220	0.273	–4.3	5.4
Residual s.d.	0.274	0.611	6.3	17.1	0.235	0.375	6.3	23.3