ACTGHS fair/poor self-rated health, adults

Commentary

19.9% of respondents to the 2022 ACT General Health Survey rated their health as fair/poor. In 2022, there was no significant difference between males (18.6%) and females (21.1%).

For the purpose of reporting the ACT General Health Survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.

Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.

Respondents to the 2022 survey were aged 18 years and over. Persons includes male, female, other and refused sex respondents and may not always add to the sum of male and female.

Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.

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Proportion of adults aged 18 years and over whose self-rated health was fair/poor, ACT General Health Survey, 2011-2022

Data

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Codes and sources

Q. Overall, how would you rate your health during the past 4 weeks?

Excellent
Very good
Good
Fair
Poor
Don't know
Refused

Don't know and refused responses were excluded from analysis.

A copy of the ACT General Health Survey questionnaires can be found in Data collections.