National indicators of health literacy: ability to understand health information and to engage actively with healthcare providers - a population-based survey among Danish adults

Table 2 Item missing, population-weighted response distribution and difficulty level of items

	Item missing	Population-weighted¹proportion in each response category				Population-weighted proportion of population reporting difficult or very difficult across items
Items²		Very difficult	Difficult	Easy	Very easy
	%	%	%	%	%	% (95% CI)
Understanding ²
1a	6.9	2.6	13.4	57.2	26.7	16.0 (15.5 - 16.6)
2a	7.3	1.4	13.1	61.3	24.2	14.5 (14.0 - 15.0)
3a	6.7	2.0	10.8	58.3	28.9	12.8 (12.4 - 13.3)
4a	6.4	3.2	17.0	56.0	23.8	20.2 (19.6 - 20.8)
5a	7.0	1.0	7.8	64.7	26.6	8.8 (8.4 - 9.2)
Engagement ²
1b	6.8	2.5	15.8	57.8	24.0	18.3 (17.7 - 18.8)
2b	6.5	1.7	12.8	57.4	28.2	14.5 (14.0 – 15.0)
3b	5.9	2.2	14.4	56.2	27.3	16.6 (16.1 - 17.1)
4b	7.3	2.0	16.3	56.9	24.8	18.3 (17.8 - 18.9)
5b	7.0	1.6	13.7	59.2	25.5	15.3 (14.8 - 15.8)

n= 29,473, Central Denmark Region 2013.
¹The sample is weighted based on register data to represent the population of the Central Denmark Region 2013.
²See Table 1 for description of items and scales.

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