Research Article
Women’s Willingness to Pay for Mammography Screening under Two Medical Information Scenarios
Table 1
Sample’s descriptive statistics.
| | Variable name | Mean/percentage (all participants) | Mean/percentage (group receiving basic medical information) | Mean/percentage (group receiving complete medical information) |
| | Monthly household income | | Low | 57% | 57% | 57% | | Medium | 34.75% | 35% | 35% | | High | 8.4% | 8% | 8% | | Age of woman | 42 | 42 | 41.8 | | Education | | Illiterate | 8% | 8% | 8% | | Up to nine years of schooling | 54% | 55% | 54% | | High school degree | 23% | 23% | 24% | | College degree | 15% | 14% | 14% | | Employment status | | Employed | 10% | 11% | 10% | | Housewife | 90% | 89% | 90% | | Family size | 3.60 | 3.6 | 3.6 | | Marital status | | Currently married | 92% | 92% | 91% | | Single | 8% | 8% | 9% | | Having supplementary insurance | 21% | 20% | 21% | | Past-hospitalization experience | 26% | 26% | 25% | | Past-mammography experience | 15.3% | 16% | 15% | | Health status (as self-report) | | Good | 50% | 50% | 50% | | Average | 43% | 43% | 43% | | Bad | 7% | 7% | 7% | | Familial history of breast cancer | 9.3% | 9% | 10% |
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