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The weighting exercise for the Swedish version of the EuroQol

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  • Stefan Björk
  • Anna Norinder

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The EuroQol weighting exercise consists of three parts. In the first, the respondents state their own health using five dimensions with three levels in each, and then they rate their own health state on a visual analogue scale. In the second part, respondents attach weights to some of the possible health states. The last part contains questions about background information. The present article presents such weights derived from a sample of the Swedish population. The sample of 1000 Swedish citizens was drawn randomly from a national address register. The overall response rate was 54.2%, though 315 (31.5%) of the responses were ultimately deemed usable. Most of the health states included in the weighting exercise were well‐chosen. Most of them were represented by at least one of the respondents. The respondent characteristics that had any influence on the valuation of health states in the weighting exercise was rating of own health, age and level of education, where a higher rating of own health, higher age and lower level of education resulted in higher valuations. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Stefan Björk & Anna Norinder, 1999. "The weighting exercise for the Swedish version of the EuroQol," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 8(2), pages 117-126, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:hlthec:v:8:y:1999:i:2:p:117-126
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199903)8:2<117::AID-HEC402>3.0.CO;2-A
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