Table 4.

Physical health condition of the respondents

SRH		Good		Fair		Poor		Total
		N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Physical health
ADL	Complete	887	45.3	844	43.1	229	11.7	1960	98.1
	Partial	1	3.0	10	30.3	22	66.7	33	1.7
	No ability	0	0.0	0	0.0	4	100.0	4	0.2
physical health changes**	Better	49	49.5	39	39.4	11	11.1	99	5.0
	Unchanged	686	53.8	529	41.5	61	4.8	1276	64.0
	Worse	146	25.1	259	44.6	176	30.3	581	29.2
	variable	7	18.9	25	67.6	5	13.5	37	1.9
hearing**	deaf	29	29.0	51	51.0	20	20.0	100	5.0
	some	140	36.6	170	44.4	73	19.1	383	19.2
	able	719	47.6	632	41.9	158	10.5	1509	75.8
speaking**	yes	52	40.3	46	35.7	31	24.0	129	6.5
	no	834	44.8	807	43.3	222	11.9	1863	93.5
vision**	sighted	701	49.4	588	41.4	131	9.2	1420	71.5
	some vision	143	32.1	207	46.5	95	21.3	445	22.4
	blind	38	31.4	56	46.3	27	22.3	121	6.1
Chronic disease
with chronic disease**	Yes	587	38.1	711	46.1	243	15.8	1541	77.2
hypertension**	Yes	402	39.4	468	45.9	150	14.7	1020	51.1
heart disease**	Yes	117	26.9	204	46.9	114	26.2	435	21.8
diabetes**	Yes	89	30.7	141	48.6	60	20.7	290	14.5
cataract**	Yes	50	28.9	93	53.8	30	17.3	173	8.7
cerebrovascular disease**	Yes	33	22.1	65	43.6	51	34.2	149	7.5
bronchitis**	yes	34	28.3	63	52.5	23	19.2	120	6.0
gastroenteritis**	yes	29	25.7	55	48.7	29	25.7	113	5.7
intervertebral disc disease**	yes	36	32.1	46	41.1	30	26.8	112	5.6
cardiovascular disease*	yes	23	40.4	26	45.6	8	14.0	57	2.9
asthma	yes	19	36.5	19	36.5	14	26.9	52	2.6
number of chronic diseases/person	0	301	66.0	143	31.4	12	2.6	456	22.8
	1	336	49.9	284	42.1	54	8.0	674	33.8
	2	151	34.8	221	50.9	62	14.3	434	21.7
	3 or more	100	23.1	206	47.6	127	29.3	433	21.7

^**means p < 0.05

^*means p < 0.1