Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 2 Average health assessments decomposed into ordinal relative health position (SOC_COMP)

From: Peer effects in health valuation: the relation between rating of contemporaries’ health and own health

	Full Sample
	SOC_COMP
	Better	Same	Worse	All
VAS_OW (S.E.)	0.85 (0.01)	0.83 (0.00)	0.65 (0.01)	0.78 (0.00)
VAS_OTHER (S.E.)	0.86 (0.01)	0.86^a (0.00)	0.85^a (0.01)	0.86^a (0.00)
p-value	0.64	< 0.01	< 0.01	< 0.01
N	352	656	492	1500
Percentage	23.5%	43.7%	32.8%	100%

^aDifferent from VAS_OWN at the 1%-significance level (paired t-test)

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