Table 1

General health: self reports by children and reports by parents about their children

	Children’s reports (%)			Parents’ reports (%)
	Boys	Girls	p value		Boys	Girls	p value
Health in the past year
Good	47.7	47.5			77.1	79.3
Fairly good	49.0	50.2			21.7	19.4
Not good	3.3	2.3	0.25		1.2	1.3	0.37

Longstanding illness
None	79.5	82.5			77.7	83.2
Illness, not limiting	11.7	10.4			16.2	9.9
Illness, limiting	8.9	7.0	0.11		6.2	6.9	< 0 .001