Table 2.

Parameters used to calculate morbidity cost

Age	Prevalencea	Distribution	Employment rate (general population)b	Distribution	Employment rate (patients with schizophrenia) (SE)c	Distributiond	Expected yearly earining (general population) (JPY: thousand)e	Distribution
Male
20–24	0.004	Deterministic	0.639	Deterministic	0.167 (0.085)	Beta	3,184	Deterministic
25–29	0.005	Deterministic	0.885	Deterministic	0.194 (0.065)	Beta	4,029	Deterministic
30–34	0.007	Deterministic	0.924	Deterministic	0.254 (0.053)	Beta	4,833	Deterministic
35–39	0.009	Deterministic	0.934	Deterministic	0.306 (0.058)	Beta	5,672	Deterministic
40–44	0.009	Deterministic	0.941	Deterministic	0.203 (0.052)	Beta	6,472	Deterministic
45–49	0.011	Deterministic	0.941	Deterministic	0.200 (0.059)	Beta	6,894	Deterministic
50–54	0.011	Deterministic	0.929	Deterministic	0.227 (0.062)	Beta	6,905	Deterministic
55–59	0.010	Deterministic	0.892	Deterministic	0.149 (0.051)	Beta	6,382	Deterministic
60–64	0.009	Deterministic	0.725	Deterministic	0.182 (0.080)	Beta	4,353	Deterministic
65–69	0.007	Deterministic	0.478	Deterministic	0.188 (0.095)	Beta	3,632	Deterministic
70–	0.004	Deterministic	0.202	Deterministic	0.188 (0.095)	Beta	4,028	Deterministic
Female
20–24	0.004	Deterministic	0.648	Deterministic	0.111 (0.059)	Beta	2,815	Deterministic
25–29	0.006	Deterministic	0.718	Deterministic	0.290 (0.080)	Beta	3,392	Deterministic
30–34	0.007	Deterministic	0.617	Deterministic	0.179 (0.051)	Beta	3,618	Deterministic
35–39	0.007	Deterministic	0.622	Deterministic	0.161 (0.046)	Beta	3,851	Deterministic
40–44	0.009	Deterministic	0.687	Deterministic	0.188 (0.056)	Beta	3,973	Deterministic
45–49	0.009	Deterministic	0.729	Deterministic	0.224 (0.054)	Beta	3,820	Deterministic
50–54	0.010	Deterministic	0.698	Deterministic	0.111 (0.052)	Beta	3,732	Deterministic
55–59	0.010	Deterministic	0.600	Deterministic	0.038 (0.026)	Beta	3,499	Deterministic
60–64	0.009	Deterministic	0.425	Deterministic	0.083 (0.045)	Beta	2,872	Deterministic
65–69	0.008	Deterministic	0.255	Deterministic	0.038 (0.037)	Beta	2,713	Deterministic
70–	0.006	Deterministic	0.085	Deterministic	0.038 (0.037)	Beta	3,043	Deterministic

Notes:

^aCalculated based on data from Vital Statistics³⁴ and the Patient Survey;¹⁶

^bderived from Labour force survey;²⁶

^cderived from Asukuri reseach;²²

^demployment rate of the patients with schizophrenia was assumed to follow Beta distribution. All other parateters were deterministic values;

^ederived from Basic Survey on Wage Structure.³⁵

Abbreviation: SE, standard error.