Population Health Metrics

Table 3 Overall HUI3 scores by household purchasing power parity adjusted income

From: Comparing the health of low income and less well educated groups in the United States and Canada

	Entire sample			Whites only
Income quintile	Canada mean HUI3	US mean HUI3	Mean difference (p-value)	Canada mean HUI3	US mean HUI3	Mean difference (p-value)
1^st (lowest)	0.81	0.77	0.04 (0.04)	0.79	0.74	0.05 (0.07)
2^nd	0.86	0.85	0.01 (0.80)	0.85	0.83	0.02 (0.34)
3^rd	0.90	0.89	0.01 (0.31)	0.90	0.87	0.03 (0.24)
4^th	0.92	0.91	0.01 (0.43)	0.92	0.91	0.01 (0.48)
5^th (highest)	0.93	0.93	0.00 (0.95)	0.93	0.93	0.00 (0.98)

Mean difference is Canadian mean HUI3 score less US mean HUI3 scores. P-values were based on mean differences for each group.

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