Table 1.
Range, means, and percentages of covariates, by self-rated health, World Health Survey.
| Range | Poor | Fair | Good | Very Good | Excellent | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual-Level Characteristics | ||||||
| Male, % | 0 to 1 | 35.7 | 36.5 | 39.8 | 45.0 | 50.4 |
| Age in decades (centered at 4.0) | 1.8 to 9.0 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.6 | −0.1 | −0.5 |
| Wealtha | −5.68 to 12.36 | −0.39 | −0.32 | −0.11 | 0.06 | 0.13 |
| Education, centered | −2.44 to 3.56 | −0.78 | −0.65 | −0.16 | 0.14 | 0.19 |
| Working for Pay, % | 0 to 1 | 28.0 | 40.7 | 55.0 | 64.2 | 66.2 |
| Country-Level Characteristics | ||||||
| Democracy factorb | −1.94 to 1.03 | −0.12 | −0.15 | −0.07 | 0.04 | 0.06 |
| GDP per capita, $ | 148 to 61,543 | 8,462 | 7,910 | 8,714 | 10,644 | 10,909 |
| Gini index | 23.7 to 61.4 | 40.3 | 40.8 | 41.4 | 40.9 | 40.4 |
| Public health factorb | −2.30 to 1.08 | 0.02 | −0.09 | 0.00 | 0.05 | −0.06 |
| Education factorb | −3.23 to 0.63 | −0.06 | −0.10 | 0.01 | 0.04 | −0.05 |
| Region, % | ||||||
| Europe | 0 to 1 | 32.4 | 28.1 | 26.6 | 26.6 | 25.1 |
| Africa | 0 to 1 | 24.9 | 25.0 | 19.8 | 18.7 | 28.2 |
| Southeast Asia | 0 to 1 | 13.8 | 15.3 | 12.0 | 12.7 | 10.6 |
| Western Pacific | 0 to 1 | 3.7 | 7.0 | 12.2 | 13.7 | 12.1 |
| South & Central America | 0 to 1 | 12.9 | 17.7 | 23.8 | 23.0 | 18.0 |
| Eastern Mediterranean | 0 to 1 | 12.3 | 6.9 | 5.6 | 5.3 | 5.9 |
| Number | 3,787 | 22,120 | 86,015 | 130,263 | 71,370 | |
| Percent | 1.2 | 7.1 | 27.4 | 41.5 | 22.8 |
N=313,554
a
Wealth has a mean=0 and a standard deviation=1 within each country.
b
The country-level factor variables are standardized (mean=0, standard deviation=1) in the country-level data.