DISENTANGLING ‘TRUI ERLYING HEALTH FROM RI ESPONSE STYLES A ge-Sex Standardized Self-reported General Health, implications in terms of the revealed ranking for the state of health across countries. Age-Sex Standardized SRH by country, after country heterogeneity strong linguistic or cultural influences on self-reporting of health. Figure 2.2 reports Figure 3.1 Age-Sex Standardized Self-reported General Health, by country such as Italy and Spain, though Germany is the country with the poorest results. Health Index distribution, and SRH thresholds Age-Sex Standardized Adjusted SRH by country, after heterogeneity control (using HOPIT), for the 10,191 individuals ge-sex distribution) and the results obtained by country were then ranked as presented A detailed description of the variables used and their construction is given in Appendix A. Note: The basis country, for which each marginal effect is reported to, is Switzerland, as ‘Excellent’ is the Marginal Effects on the P(Poor Quality of Life) All of the following where included in vector Z, of regressors over the thresholds: Bh — Behavioral risks/lifestyle choices more than 30 (obese). ‘™ rated on a scale from 1(poor)-5(excellent). Dummy indicating poor reading skills if
