Willingness to pay for flexible working conditions of people with type 2 diabetes: discrete choice experiments

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Characteristics of participants

	General population		T2D sample		Matched sample
	n = 600		n = 693		n = 539
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Gender
Male	309	52	420	61	315	58
Female	291	49	273	39	224	42
Higest obtained education
Primary school/short education	270	45	401	58	244	45
Medium long/long education	330	55	292	42	295	55
Employment sector
Public	360	40	309	45	205	38
Private	240	60	384	55	332	62
Type of employment
Full-time	574	96	577	83	498	92
Part-time	26	4	116	17	41	8
Income level
Low (below 6711 €)^a	272	45	336	48	211	39
High (above 6711 €)^a	251	42	274	40	259	48
Prefer not to answer	77	13	83	12	68	13
Relative or friend with diabetes?
No	335	62	–	–	184	66
Yes	205	38	–	–	352	34
Diagnosed with diabetes
Type 1 diabetes	17	3	0	0	–	–
Type 2 diabetes	43	7	693	100	–	–
Blood glucose lowering medicine
Yes	27	5	544	78	–	–
No	573	95	149	22	–	–
Insulin treatment
Yes	6	1	149	22	–	–
No	594	99	544	78	–	–
Diabetes specific complications ^b
Yes	36	6	120	17	–	–
No	564	94	573	83	–	–
Self-rated health
Good	443	74	375	54	410	76
Bad	157	26	318	46	129	24
Perceived severity of T2D ^c
Severe	174	29	224	34	149	28
Not severe	404	67	446	65	374	69
Don’t know	22	4	3	1	16	3

^aConversion from DKK (Danish Krone) to Euro is based on the average exchange in 2015 of 7.45
^bDiabetes specific kidney complications, foot damage, eye changes or ‘other’
^cWhen you think of the disease T2D how do you perceive it?
-item not surveyed in this sample

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