Table 3.

Difference in Mean Self-Rated Health and Proportion in Fair or Poor Health across Response Option Order Experimental Factor and Experimental Treatments, TESS 2013

	Factor 1		Treatment 1	Treatment 2	Treatment 3	Treatment 4
	“Excellent” to “Poor”	“Poor” to “Excellent”	“Excellent” to “Poor” and First	“Excellent” to “Poor” and Last	“Poor” to “Excellent” and First	“Poor” to “Excellent” and Last
Mean self-rated health (5=excellent-1=poor)	3.39	3.30*	3.43	3.34	3.29**	3.30*
Mean self-rated health (Krosnick scale values)	72.64	71.57	73.34	71.92	71.68*	71.46*
Mean self-rated health (Perneger et al. scale values)	3.83	3.74*	3.89	3.77*	3.75**	3.73**
Proportion in “fair” or “poor” health	0.16	0.18	0.14	0.19**	0.17	0.19**

Notes

TESS: Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences

Tests of differences in means or proportion across response option order experimental factor or comparing treatments 2–4 to treatment 1:

^*p<.05,

^**p<.01,

^***p<.001