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Table 5 Percentage of Participants with at Least One Health Factor Coded as Indicating a Negative, Ambivalent/Neutral, Positive, or Not Discernible Valence within Self-Rated Health Category Chosen

From: How participants report their health status: cognitive interviews of self-rated health across race/ethnicity, gender, age, and educational attainment

 

Self-Rated Health Answer

 

Fair

Good

Very good

Excellent

Overall

 Percentage

19%

44%

31%

6%

 

 Number of participants

12

28

20

4

Valencea

 Negative (vs. none)

100%

86%

65%

50%

*

 Ambivalent or neutral (vs. none)

17%

46%

20%

0%

+

 Positive (vs. none)

25%

54%

80%

100%

**

 Not discernible (vs. none)

25%

57%

65%

25%

+

  1. aFisher’s exact test for significant differences across groups (two-tailed). + p < .10, *p < .05, **p < .01