IMPORTANCE RATINGS Forty one standardised questions were added by the WHOQOL coordinating group to assess the importance attributed by the respondents to the selected WHOQOL facets, with a view to possible weighting of facets and domains. Items corresponded to the 29 facets of the WHOQOL pilot version, with some facets having more than one item to reflect their content. These items use a five point Likert response scale and are scaled in a positively framed direction. To date, the importance items have not been used to weight the WHOQOL facets or domain scores. Importance ratings included in the WHOQOL-100 are given in Appendix 7.