Excellent, very good, or good self-rated health status by socioeconomic disadvantage,
persons aged 16 to 24 years, NSW, 1997-2007
persons aged 16 to 24 years, NSW, 1997-2007
| Sex | Year | 1st Quintile % (95% CI) | 2nd Quintile % (95% CI) | 3rd Quintile % (95% CI) | 4th Quintile % (95% CI) | 5th Quintile % (95% CI) | NSW % (95% CI) |
| Males | 1997 | 96.0 (92.7-99.2) | 90.6 (85.8-95.4) | 93.5 (89.4-97.6) | 92.0 (87.3-96.7) | 87.5 (82.0-93.0) | 91.7 (89.6-93.8) |
| 1998 | 93.8 (88.2-99.3) | 92.3 (87.3-97.3) | 92.9 (88.5-97.3) | 95.0 (91.7-98.3) | 93.9 (90.0-97.9) | 93.5 (91.5-95.5) | |
| 2002 | 86.4 (76.3-96.5) | 93.3 (85.4-100) | 80.4 (66.8-94.0) | 89.0 (82.7-95.4) | 84.1 (75.1-93.2) | 86.3 (81.7-90.8) | |
| 2003 | 86.5 (77.6-95.5) | 82.8 (73.7-91.9) | 87.9 (81.0-94.7) | 85.8 (78.9-92.8) | 83.5 (75.0-92.0) | 85.2 (81.5-88.8) | |
| 2004 | 78.6 (65.1-92.0) | 84.1 (73.8-94.4) | 87.8 (79.4-96.1) | 84.5 (74.5-94.4) | 92.7 (84.6-100) | 85.0 (80.1-89.9) | |
| 2005 | 87.5 (78.7-96.2) | 89.8 (82.4-97.2) | 85.8 (76.8-94.8) | 84.4 (74.5-94.3) | 85.7 (77.0-94.4) | 87.4 (83.6-91.1) | |
| 2006 | 92.8 (84.1-100) | 81.9 (70.9-93.0) | 92.4 (86.3-98.6) | 85.1 (74.2-96.0) | 84.7 (74.6-94.7) | 87.4 (83.2-91.6) | |
| 2007 | 90.2 (82.3-98.1) | 89.1 (81.2-97.0) | 88.4 (80.5-96.3) | 89.5 (82.6-96.4) | 88.7 (81.1-96.3) | 89.2 (85.8-92.6) | |
| Females | 1997 | 89.7 (83.3-96.1) | 91.2 (86.3-96.2) | 91.7 (87.3-96.1) | 91.0 (86.0-95.9) | 93.9 (90.6-97.3) | 91.6 (89.3-93.8) |
| 1998 | 90.1 (83.1-97.1) | 94.8 (91.6-98.0) | 93.6 (89.1-98.2) | 86.5 (80.6-92.5) | 92.9 (89.5-96.3) | 91.4 (89.1-93.7) | |
| 2002 | 77.1 (61.4-92.8) | 80.6 (71.4-89.7) | 82.8 (74.9-90.7) | 84.6 (77.4-91.7) | 86.2 (80.0-92.3) | 82.8 (78.9-86.7) | |
| 2003 | 83.3 (73.2-93.3) | 79.1 (70.4-87.8) | 83.2 (76.6-89.8) | 85.5 (78.9-92.1) | 84.2 (76.4-91.9) | 83.1 (79.7-86.6) | |
| 2004 | 87.4 (77.0-97.7) | 84.0 (75.8-92.1) | 81.6 (71.7-91.6) | 82.6 (73.3-91.8) | 82.0 (71.4-92.5) | 83.5 (79.2-87.8) | |
| 2005 | 77.9 (67.9-87.8) | 85.4 (78.2-92.6) | 83.4 (73.6-93.2) | 88.5 (80.9-96.1) | 79.4 (70.3-88.5) | 81.8 (77.8-85.8) | |
| 2006 | 79.8 (68.7-91.0) | 86.4 (77.5-95.2) | 82.9 (73.1-92.7) | 79.2 (66.0-92.4) | 72.9 (60.9-85.0) | 80.1 (75.1-85.2) | |
| 2007 | 87.0 (79.0-95.0) | 88.0 (80.6-95.3) | 76.5 (68.1-84.8) | 84.2 (75.6-92.8) | 85.2 (76.7-93.8) | 83.6 (79.8-87.3) | |
| Persons | 1997 | 92.7 (88.9-96.4) | 90.9 (87.5-94.4) | 92.6 (89.6-95.6) | 91.5 (88.1-94.9) | 90.6 (87.3-93.9) | 91.6 (90.1-93.2) |
| 1998 | 91.9 (87.5-96.4) | 93.6 (90.7-96.5) | 93.3 (90.1-96.4) | 90.7 (87.3-94.2) | 93.5 (90.8-96.1) | 92.5 (90.9-94.0) | |
| 2002 | 82.2 (73.2-91.2) | 86.2 (80.0-92.4) | 81.6 (73.6-89.6) | 87.0 (82.2-91.7) | 85.1 (79.7-90.6) | 84.6 (81.6-87.5) | |
| 2003 | 84.9 (78.2-91.6) | 81.0 (74.6-87.3) | 85.4 (80.6-90.2) | 85.7 (80.9-90.4) | 83.8 (78.0-89.6) | 84.2 (81.7-86.7) | |
| 2004 | 82.2 (73.2-91.2) | 84.0 (77.5-90.5) | 85.1 (78.7-91.5) | 83.4 (76.6-90.2) | 86.7 (79.6-93.7) | 84.3 (81.0-87.6) | |
| 2005 | 82.8 (76.1-89.4) | 87.5 (82.4-92.7) | 84.6 (78.0-91.3) | 86.5 (80.3-92.7) | 82.4 (76.1-88.7) | 84.6 (81.8-87.3) | |
| 2006 | 86.4 (79.2-93.5) | 84.2 (77.1-91.3) | 87.8 (82.0-93.6) | 82.5 (74.0-91.0) | 78.8 (70.8-86.9) | 83.9 (80.6-87.2) | |
| 2007 | 88.8 (83.1-94.4) | 88.5 (83.1-93.9) | 81.9 (76.1-87.8) | 87.3 (81.9-92.7) | 86.9 (81.2-92.7) | 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 |