Assessment of the health of Americans: the average health-related quality of life and its inequality across individuals and groups

Table 2 The Health and Activity Limitation Index (HALex)

		Perceived health status
		Excellent	Very good	Good	Fair	Poor	Dead
Activity limitation	Single attribute score	1.00	0.85	0.70	0.30	0.00
Not limited	1.00	1.00	0.92	0.84	0.63	0.47
Limited in performing other activities	0.75	0.87	0.79	0.72	0.52	0.38
Limited in performing major acitivities	0.65	0.81	0.74	0.67	0.48	0.34
Unable to perform major activity	0.40	0.68	0.62	0.55	0.38	0.25
Limited in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL)	0.20	0.57	0.51	0.45	0.29	0.17
Limited in activities of daily living (ADL)	0.00	0.47	0.41	0.36	0.21	0.10
Dead							0.00

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