| Table 6.6 | ||||||||||||||
| Limiting long-standing illness by self-reported general health, 1983 to 2007-08 | ||||||||||||||
| Persons aged 16+ | Percentages | |||||||||||||
| 1983 | 1992-93 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-00 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | Base (2007-08) = 100% 1 | |
| All Persons | 21 | 20 | 26 | 26 | 28 | 26 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 27 | 3,415 |
| Good | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1,929 |
| Fairly good | 30 | 27 | 35 | 33 | 37 | 34 | 36 | 34 | 34 | 35 | 34 | 32 | 34 | 907 |
| Not good | 79 | 79 | 86 | 85 | 87 | 88 | 84 | 85 | 85 | 84 | 84 | 82 | 86 | 579 |
| Source:Continuous Household Survey | ||||||||||||||
| Notes: | ||||||||||||||
| 1Bases for earlier years are of a similar size | ||||||||||||||