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Appendix C (continued)

Changes in self-rated health decomposed by health failures

This section contains supporting tables for Section 5.1.1.

Appendix Table 24 – Changes in self-rated health – before decomposition
Counts Health Wave 3 Proportions
Health Wave 2 Excellent Very good Good Fair Poor Up Same Down
Excellent 717,100 315,100 89,700 12,800 1,800 - 0.6310 0.3690
Very good 199,700 464,700 189,400 29,200 3,900 0.2252 0.5240 0.2509
Good 52,900 161,900 259,000 68,500 10,100 0.3888 0.4689 0.1423
Fair 4,800 17,000 60,400 74,400 20,500 0.4641 0.4201 0.1158
Poor 1,400 1,900 7,600 14,900 20,000 0.5633 0.4367 -
Appendix Table 25 – Changes in self-rated health – with health failure
Counts Health Wave 3 Proportions
Health Wave 2 Excellent Very good Good Fair Poor Up Same Down
Excellent 111,900 67,400 29,500 6,700 1,100 - 0.5166 0.4834
Very good 32,100 103,700 58,000 12,800 2,800 0.1533 0.4952 0.3515
Good 11,400 38,800 84,000 37,000 6,600 0.2823 0.4724 0.2452
Fair 1,700 7,500 26,100 42,900 14,300 0.3816 0.4638 0.1546
Poor S S 3,800 11,000 14,400 0.5068 0.4932 -
Counts Health Wave 3 Proportions
Health Wave 2 Excellent Very good Good Fair Poor Up Same Down
Appendix Table 26 – Changes in self-rated health – without health failure
Excellent 605,200 247,800 60,200 6,100 S - 0.6583 0.3417
Very good 167,600 361,000 131,400 16,400 1,100 0.2474 0.5328 0.2198
Good 41,500 123,100 175,000 31,500 3,500 0.4394 0.4672 0.0934
Fair 3,100 9,600 34,300 31,400 6,200 0.5556 0.3712 0.0733
Poor S S 3,900 3,900 5,700 0.5778 0.4222 -

Source: SoFIE Waves 1–3, OSMs, longitudinal weights, supplied by Statistics New Zealand

Notes:

  1. The proportions given on the right hand side show the proportion of the longitudinal population whose self-rated health improved, worsened or stayed the same between waves.
  2. S = results censored due to too few observations. These cells contained less than 1,000 weighted observations before release.

From the above tables it can be seen that a greater proportion of the longitudinal population who suffer a short-term health failure rate their health worse between waves, and a smaller proportion rate their health better between waves, than those who do not suffer a health failure.

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