Willingness to pay for flexibility at the workplace for people with diabetes and chronic disease: a discrete choice experiment in a population of workers in Denmark

Table 4 Willingness to pay for flexibility at the workplace for people with diabetes and chronic disease in general among subgroups, €/month deducted from pay-check after taxes

	N (%) Diabetes	N (%) Chronic disease	WTP Diabetes (€)	WTP Chronic disease (€)	Difference P-value
Average	540	563	36	49	0.008^*
Gender
Male	272 (50)	297 (53)	44	55	0.248
Female	268 (50)	266 (47)	32	46	0.012^*
Age
25–49 years	316 (59)	338 (60)	32	43	0.042^*
50–67 years	224 (42)	225 (40)	45	69	0.080
Education
Less than 3 years of further education	237 (44)	248 (44)	34	54	0.012^*
More than 3 years of further education	303 (56)	315 (56)	39	47	0.224
Relative with diabetes
Do not have relatives or friends with diabetes	335 (62)	379 (67)	39	55	0.028^*
Have relatives or friends with diabetes	205 (38)	184 (33)	34	40	0.352
Morbidity^a
Not treated for chronic disease within the last year	381 (71)	412 (73)	39	48	0.140
Treated for chronic disease within the last year	159 (29)	151 (27)	33	57	0.012^*
Employer responsibility^b
Employer responsible for flexible work conditions	124 (23)	112 (20)	59	76	0.436
Employer not responsible for flexible work conditions	416 (77)	451 (80)	29	46	< 0.001^*

^aDiseases – arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, back disease, cancer, COPD, depression, decreased hearing, migraine, stroke and other long-term disease
^bEmployer is to a large or very large degree responsible for ensuring flexible working conditions for diabetes, COPD, cancer, heart disease and arthritis. Differences tested with Chi-squared tests
^*Statistically significant at an alpha of 0.05

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