Valuing Chinese medicine quality of life-11 dimensions (CQ-11D) health states using a discrete choice experiment with survival duration (DCETTO)

Table 3 Sample quota design

Demographic characteristics	Percentage of China's adult population*	Total quota sample size
Demographic characteristics	(%)	N = 2400
*Gender*
Male	51.13%	1227
Female	48.87%	1173
*Age*
18-29^a	20.11%	483
30–39	19.10%	458
40–49	20.28%	487
50–59	18.18%	436
≥ 60	22.32%	536

^*The proportion of China's adult population was calculated using the data from China Statistical Yearbook (2019);
^a18–19-year-old population data in the "China Statistical Yearbook (2019)" was included in the 15–19-year-old population, so it was obtained by calculating the average population of each age in the 15–19 years old

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