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Question 1- two versions

How is you health in general? Is it very good, good, fair, bad or very bad? How is you health in general? Is it very good, good, neither good nor bad, bad or very bad?

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Question 1- final version

How is you health in general? Is it very good, good, fair, bad or very bad?

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Question 2 - two versions

Do you have any longstanding illness or health problem?

Do you have any longstanding illness or longstanding health problem? By long-standing I mean anything that has troubled you over a period of time or is likely to affect you over a period of time.

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Question 2 - final version?

Do you have any longstanding illness or longstanding health problem? [By longstanding I mean illnesses or health problems which have lasted or are expected to last for 6 months or more].

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Question 3 – first version

For at least the past 6 months, to what extent have you been limited because of a health problem in activities people usually do?

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Question 3 – second version

Now thinking about all your health problems, not just those who are longstanding: For at least the past 6 months, to what extent have you been limited because of a health problem in activities people usually do? Would you say you have been severely limited, limited but not severely, or not limited at all?

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Question 3- final version

For at least the past 6 months, to what extent have you been limited because of a health problem in activities people usually do?