TROMSO_PERHE_SRH

Name: PERHE_SRH

Short description: Self-rated health

Type: Integer

Description and values: Self-rated health based on a 4-point scale (plus category for missing)

• 1=Bad (very bad - bad)
• 2=Fair
• 3=Good
• 4=Very good (very good - excellent)
• 9=Missing

Local variable explanation: 

*HEALTH_T4 : *What is your current state of health?

SAS code:

PERHE_SRH=HEALTH_T4;

if HEALTH_T4 EQ . then PERHE_SRH=9;     

SHARE_PERHE_SRH

PERHE_SRH is based on two SHARE variables: ph003 and ph002. Latter was only asked to respondents in wave 1. For wave 1 respondents with missing information in ph003, we used ph002 to generate PERHE_SRH.

SENECA_PERHE_SRH

Contact round 1:

PERHE_SRH is based on SENECA variable HLTHJUDG (“Judgement of present health”)

IF HLTHJUDG = 1 (“Very poor”) or 2 (“Poor”) THEN PERHE_SRH=1;

IF HLTHJUDG=3  (“Fair”) THEN PERHE_SRH=2;

IF HLTHJUDG=4  (“Good”) THEN PERHE_SRH=3;

IF HLTHJUDG=5 (“Very good”) THEN PERHE_SRH=4;

IF HLTHJUDG=8 (“Irrelevant”) or 9 (“No answer/Don’t know) or . THEN PERHE_SRH=.;

Contact round 2:

PERHE_SRH is based on SENECA variable FHLTHJUD (“Judgement of present health”)

IF FHLTHJUD = 1 (“Very poor”) or 2 (“Poor”) THEN PERHE_SRH=1;

IF FHLTHJUD =3  (“Fair”) THEN PERHE_SRH=2;

IF FHLTHJUD =4  (“Good”) THEN PERHE_SRH=3;

IF FHLTHJUD =5 (“Very good”) THEN PERHE_SRH=4;

IF FHLTHJUD =8 (“Irrelevant”) or 9 (“No answer/Don’t know) or . THEN PERHE_SRH=.;

Contact round 3:

PERHE_SRH is based on SENECA variable SHLTHJUD (“Judgement of present health”)

IF SHLTHJUD = 1 (“Very poor”) or 2 (“Poor”) THEN PERHE_SRH=1;

IF SHLTHJUD =3  (“Fair”) THEN PERHE_SRH=2;

IF SHLTHJUD =4  (“Good”) THEN PERHE_SRH=3;

IF SHLTHJUD =5 (“Very good”) THEN PERHE_SRH=4;

IF SHLTHJUD =8 (“Irrelevant”) or 9 (“No answer/Don’t know) or . THEN PERHE_SRH=.;

HAPIEE_PERHE_SRH

Based on HAPIEE baseline variable h7.

h7   "Over the last 12 months, would you say your health has been...?"
1 "Very good" 
2 "Good" 
3 "Average" 
4 "Poor" 
5 "Very poor "
9 "Missing" 

Stata code

recode h7 (4 5=1 "Bad") (3=2 "Fair") (2=3 "Good")  (1=4 "Very good"),  copyrest into(perhe_srh)

ESTHER_PERHE_SRH

if G09ALLG = 1 then perhe_srh=4;
if G09ALLG = 2 then perhe_srh=4;
if G09ALLG = 3 then perhe_srh=3;
if G09ALLG = 4 then perhe_srh=2;
if G09ALLG = 5 then perhe_srh=1;
if G09ALLG = . then perhe_srh=9;

Source of G09ALLG is participant's questionnaire at baseline

EPIC_PERHE_SRH

The EPIC variable S_HEALTH and ENdie_v30 were used for the production of PERHE_SRH according to the following definition and rule.

EPIC var definition(s):
S_HEALTH: Epic elderly variable showing answer to the question "satisfied today with your health?"

ENdie_v30: Epic elderly Greece variable showing answer to the question "satisfied today with your health?" (only for Greece)

Coding rule:
Variable PERHE_SRH shows self rated health status. It uses the answers from the EPIC variable S_HEALTH for Spain, Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark and from the variable ENdie_v30 for Greece.

Coding rule in STATA:
-gen PERHE_SRH = S_HEALTH

-recode PERHE_SRH 1=4 2=3 3=2 4=1 .=9

-gen PERHE_SRH_GR= ENdie_v30

-recode PERHE_SRH_GR 1=4 2=3 3=2 4=1 0=9 .=9

-replace PERHE_SRH=PERHE_SRH_GR if COUNTRY==6