A comparison of injured patient and general population valuations of EQ-5D health states for New Zealand

Table 2 Socio-demographic characteristics of participants in the two studies

	Injured population study		General population study
	For mean health state values	For equations (1) and (2)
	n = 2099	n = 2847	n = 396
	%	%	%
Sex:
Female	37.3	38.6	54.3
Male	62.7	61.4	45.0
Age:
18-19 years	3.9	3.6	2.5
20-29	22.1	21.0	14.9
30-39	23.3	22.4	21.9
40-49	21.6	22.8	22.5
50-59	21.6	22.3	17.4
60+	7.5	7.9	20.5
Ethnicity:
European or Pakeha	68.8	67.8	86.5
Māori	18.9	19.8	7.1
Pacific islands^#	6.6	6.8	1.4
Asian or ‘other’	22.8	22.8	4.1
Employment: (pre-injury for injured population study)
Employed	93.0	91.9	64.1
Retired	0.5	0.7	15.9
Homemaker	1.5	1.4	11.6
Student	2.5	2.3	5.6
Seeking work	0.6	0.9	0.8
Other	1.9	2.8	2.0

^#Samoan, Cook Island Māori, Tongan and Niuean.
Not all percentages sum to 100 because participants for whom a response was not recorded are not reported here. In the injured population study, participants could report more than one ethnicity.

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