Support for a tax increase to provide unrestricted access to an Alzheimer's disease medication: a survey of the general public in Canada

Table 1 Sample characteristics

Characteristic	n	%
Sex
Female	305	61
Male	195	39
Annual household income
<$20,000	100	20
$20,000 to <$40,000	100	20
$40,000 to <$60,000	100	20
$60,000 to <$80,000	100	20
≥ $80,000	100	20
Region of residence
Atlantic	36	7
Québec	155	31
Ontario	167	33
Prairies	83	17
British Columbia	59	12
Highest level of education completed
High school or less	169	34
At least some technical or community college	143	29
At least some university	184	37
Missing	4	<1
Employment status
Not working (unemployed, student, homemaker)	66	13
Retired	142	28
Employed (full- or part-time)	281	56
Missing	11	2
Participant knows a family member or close friend with Alzheimer's disease
Yes	211	42
No	286	57
Missing	3	<1
Family members' or friends' level of approval of a participant's decision to support a tax increase*
Strongly disapprove	39	8
Somewhat disapprove	78	16
Somewhat approve	260	52
Strongly approve	110	22
Missing	13	3
Alzheimer's disease knowledge score^†	4**	3 to 4^††
Age^‡	51**	40 to 64^††
EQ-5D Index (current health state)^¶	0.83**	0.80 to 1.00^††
EQ-5D Index (participants assume they have Alzheimer's disease)^§	0.68**	0.47 to 0.77^††

*This is the participant's belief in whether a family member or friend would approve of their decision to support a tax increase. It is not the participant's actual knowledge of whether family or friends would approve.
^†Not linear in the logit: categorized for regression analyses as good (score = 4 to 5), fair (score = 2 to 3), poor (score = 0 to 1).
^‡Not linear in the logit: categorized for regression analyses as <65 years, ≥ 65 years.
^¶Not linear in the logit: categorized for regression analyses as <0.84, ≥ 0.84.
^§Not linear in the logit: categorized for regression analyses as <0.78, ≥ 0.78.
**Median.
^††25^th to 75^th percentile.

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