Table 2.

Age, Cohort, and Period Effects on SRH: Results From Growth Models: Canadian National Population Health Survey, 1994-2010^a

	Outcome: Self-Rated Health
	Model A:		Model B:
	Age		Age, Period,
	and Cohort		and Cohort
	β	S.E.	β	S.E.
Intercept	80.06***	0.45	76.52***	1.52
Gender (ref: men)
Women	−0.71*	0.33	−0.721*	0.33
Linear ageb	−0.33***	0.01	−0.46***	0.06
Quadratic age	−0.002***	0.001	−0.002***	0.001
Birth cohort (ref: GenX)c
WW2	−1.38*	0.59	2.46	1.69
OBB	−0.08	0.51	2.47*	1.17
YBB	0.40	0.47	1.66*	0.70
Periodd			0.14*	0.06

^*p < 0.05

^**p < 0.01

^***p < 0.0001.

^aGrowth model with random intercept and age.

^bAge was centered at 52 years.

^cWW2 = World War II cohort, OBB = Older baby boomer, YBB = Younger baby boomer, GenX = Generation X.

^dYears since baseline.