Excellent, very good, or good self-rated health status by region,
persons aged 16 to 24 years, NSW, 1997-2007
persons aged 16 to 24 years, NSW, 1997-2007
| Sex | Year | Urban % (95% CI) | Rural % (95% CI) | NSW % (95% CI) |
| Males | 1997 | 92.9 (90.4-95.4) | 88.9 (85.1-92.6) | 91.7 (89.6-93.8) |
| 1998 | 93.4 (90.9-96.0) | 93.6 (90.6-96.6) | 93.5 (91.5-95.5) | |
| 2002 | 85.6 (80.3-91.0) | 87.8 (79.1-96.5) | 86.3 (81.7-90.8) | |
| 2003 | 83.8 (79.0-88.6) | 88.6 (84.1-93.1) | 85.2 (81.5-88.8) | |
| 2004 | 83.5 (77.2-89.7) | 89.2 (82.8-95.6) | 85.0 (80.1-89.9) | |
| 2005 | 87.7 (83.2-92.2) | 86.4 (80.1-92.7) | 87.4 (83.6-91.1) | |
| 2006 | 85.7 (80.4-91.1) | 91.8 (86.0-97.6) | 87.4 (83.2-91.6) | |
| 2007 | 89.5 (85.4-93.7) | 88.2 (82.5-93.9) | 89.2 (85.8-92.6) | |
| Females | 1997 | 90.5 (87.6-93.4) | 94.2 (91.8-96.7) | 91.6 (89.3-93.8) |
| 1998 | 90.4 (87.4-93.4) | 93.9 (91.1-96.6) | 91.4 (89.1-93.7) | |
| 2002 | 81.8 (76.8-86.8) | 85.4 (80.0-90.7) | 82.8 (78.9-86.7) | |
| 2003 | 82.2 (77.8-86.5) | 85.9 (81.0-90.7) | 83.1 (79.7-86.6) | |
| 2004 | 84.1 (78.6-89.5) | 82.1 (75.7-88.6) | 83.5 (79.2-87.8) | |
| 2005 | 81.4 (76.3-86.5) | 82.9 (77.4-88.4) | 81.8 (77.8-85.8) | |
| 2006 | 77.8 (71.3-84.3) | 86.4 (80.4-92.3) | 80.1 (75.1-85.2) | |
| 2007 | 84.1 (79.4-88.8) | 82.2 (76.2-88.3) | 83.6 (79.8-87.3) | |
| Persons | 1997 | 91.7 (89.8-93.6) | 91.5 (89.2-93.8) | 91.6 (90.1-93.2) |
| 1998 | 92.0 (90.0-93.9) | 93.7 (91.7-95.8) | 92.5 (90.9-94.0) | |
| 2002 | 83.7 (80.1-87.4) | 86.6 (81.5-91.8) | 84.6 (81.6-87.5) | |
| 2003 | 83.0 (79.8-86.2) | 87.2 (83.9-90.5) | 84.2 (81.7-86.7) | |
| 2004 | 83.8 (79.6-87.9) | 85.7 (81.1-90.3) | 84.3 (81.0-87.6) | |
| 2005 | 84.5 (81.1-88.0) | 84.6 (80.4-88.7) | 84.6 (81.8-87.3) | |
| 2006 | 81.9 (77.7-86.2) | 89.2 (85.0-93.3) | 83.9 (80.6-87.2) | |
| 2007 | 86.9 (83.8-90.0) | 85.3 (81.1-89.4) | 86.4 (83.9-89.0) |
| Note: | Estimates are based on the following numbers of respondents for NSW: 1997 (1,867), 1998 (1,745), 2002 (1,176), 2003 (1,254), 2004 ( 814), 2005 ( 937), 2006 ( 644), 2007 ( 893). The indicator includes those responding excellent, very good, or good to a global self-rated health status question. The question used to define the indicator was: Overall, how would you rate your health during the last 4 weeks? Was it excellent, very good, good, fair, poor, or very poor? The question used to define the indicator in 1997 and 1998 was: In general would you say your health is excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor? |
| Source: | New South Wales Population Health Survey 2007 (HOIST). Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Department of Health. |
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| Produced by: | Centre for Epidemiology and Research, Population Health Division, NSW Department of Health. |
| Last updated on: | 1 June 2008 |