Sources & Notes for Tables & Figuresalso include comparison income, education, unemployment, and
partnership. In Britain (BCS) controls also include noncriminality,
child outcomes at 16, and family background. Cross- section regres-
sions using information from BCS respondents at ages 34 and 42,
and BHPS, HILDA, and BRFSS respondents at age 25+. Bold: p <
.10 (2- tailed).
- Lagged by one year.
Figure 6.1. How life- satisfaction (0– 1) is affected by the EQ5D, com-
pared with weights used in QALYs.
Source: Life- satisfaction comes from Dolan and Metcalfe (2012). QALY
weights come from Dolan (1997). The QALY weights have been
adjusted to have the same mean value as the weights in the life-
satisfaction regression. For further discussion, see annex 5.2 of La-
yard and D. M. Clark (2014).
Notes: The reference case in each domain is no problems at all.
Figure 6.2. Rates of morbidity in each age group
Source: World Health Organisation (WHO) (2008). Western European
countries, including UK.
Notes: The units on the vertical axis measure ill health by the average
% reduction in the quality of life, spread over the whole population
in each age group.
Figure 6.3. Ill health: by age (Britain, BHPS)
Notes: Emotional health is measured using the General Health Ques-
tionnaire (left- hand scale); physical health problems are measured
using the number of physical health problems (right- hand scale).
Table 6.4. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by emotional
and physical health of self and others (household panel data)
(pooled cross- section)
Source: Online Full Table 6.4.
Notes: Controls for income, years of education, employment status,
marital status, female, age, age- squared, year, and region dummies.
Cross- section regressions using information from BHPS, SOEP, and
HILDA respondents at age 25+. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).
- Lagged by one year.
Figure 6.4. Adaptation to disability
Notes: Controls for age, age- squared, income, qualifications, partnered,
children, region, and wave dummies. UK: disabled=1 if respondents
report being disabled in answer to the LFS question. Germany: