Examining Health Inequalities in Latvia: A Decade of Association between Socioeconomic Position and Perceived Health Status

Table 3

Distribution of perceived health status.

SES quintile	2015 []			2010 []			2005 []
	Δ	Mean-std.	Mean	Δ	Mean-std.	Mean	Δ	Mean-std.	Mean
Poorest	−0.51	2.88	3.38	−0.32	2.94	3.26	−0.15	3.13	3.27
2nd poorest	−0.35	2.76	3.11	−0.11	2.86	2.97	0.08	3.00	2.93
Middle	−0.08	2.69	2.78	0.12	2.80	2.68	0.24	2.92	2.67
2nd richest	0.08	2.68	2.60	0.25	2.75	2.51	0.31	2.87	2.57
Richest	0.21	2.60	2.40	0.30	2.65	2.35	0.38	2.77	2.39
Total	−0.08	2.70	2.78	0.04	2.80	2.76	0.07	3.01	2.94
HI	0.137 (0.004)			0.155 (0.004)			0.201 (0.006)

Mean of indirectly standardized perceived health status; mean of perceived health status (1 = very good, 2 = good, 3 = average, 4 = bad, and 5 = very bad); : difference between the mean of indirectly standardized perceived health and the mean of perceived health status; HI: health inequality index. Figures in parentheses indicate bootstrapped standard error.