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Table 1 Background of respondents

From: How do Japanese rate the severity of different diseases and injuries?—an assessment of disability weights for 231 health states by 37,318 Japanese respondents

 

Respondents

National population [14]

Variable

Number

Percentage

Percentage

Gender

 Male

19,462

52.2

48.7

 Female

17,856

47.9

51.3

Agea

 –19

756

2.0

2.5

 20–29

5102

13.7

12.9

 30–39

6481

17.4

16.2

 40–49

7642

20.5

19.1

 50–59

6417

17.2

16.0

 60–69

6995

18.7

18.8

 70–

3925

10.5

14.5

Prefecture

 Hokkaido

1598

4.3

4.2

 Aomori

350

0.9

1.0

 Iwate

338

0.9

1.0

 Miyagi

801

2.2

1.8

 Akita

288

0.8

0.8

 Yamagata

267

0.7

0.9

 Fukushima

428

1.2

1.5

 Ibaraki

667

1.8

2.3

 Tochigi

386

1.0

1.6

 Gunma

357

1.0

1.6

 Saitama

2095

5.6

5.7

 Chiba

1809

4.9

4.9

 Tokyo

5013

13.4

10.6

 Kanagawa

3061

8.2

7.2

 Niigata

618

1.7

1.8

 Toyama

281

0.8

0.8

 Ishikawa

332

0.9

0.9

 Fukui

188

0.5

0.6

 Yamanashi

169

0.5

0.7

 Nagano

537

1.4

1.7

 Gifu

561

1.5

1.6

 Shizuoka

977

2.6

2.9

 Aichi

2432

6.5

5.9

 Mie

414

1.1

1.4

 Shiga

345

0.9

1.1

 Kyoto

815

2.2

2.1

 Osaka

2827

7.6

7.0

 Hyogo

1661

4.5

4.4

 Nara

470

1.3

1.1

 Wakayama

227

0.6

0.8

 Tottori

142

0.4

0.5

 Shimane

149

0.4

0.5

 Okayama

592

1.6

1.5

 Hiroshima

871

2.3

2.2

 Yamaguchi

304

0.8

1.1

 Tokushima

212

0.6

0.6

 Kagawa

276

0.7

0.8

 Ehime

388

1.0

1.1

 Kochi

153

0.4

0.6

 Fukuoka

1872

5.0

4.0

 Saga

193

0.5

0.7

 Nagasaki

376

1.0

1.1

 Kumamoto

399

1.0

1.4

 Oita

249

0.7

0.9

 Miyazaki

221

0.6

0.9

 Kagoshima

318

0.9

1.3

 Okinawa

291

0.8

1.1

Highest educational level [13]

 High school

13,591

36.4

37.5

 Universityb

17,223

46.2

16.1

Marital status

 Married

21,394

57.3

58.5

 Divorced

2666

7.1

5.2

 Widowed

865

2.3

8.9

 Never married

12,258

32.9

27.3

  1. aDenominator of national population was the number of population aged 18 and above
  2. bIncludes graduate schools