Table 2.

Characteristics of the Norwegian general population in 2010 and the unweighted Norwegian 15D valuation sample

	Norwegian population (n = 3,937,847)	Unweighted sample (n = 2256)
Gender
Men	1,956,835 (50%)	1089 (48%)
Women	1,981,012 (50%)	1167 (52%)
Age
18–24a	575,921 (15%)	140 (6%)
25–39	985,937 (25%)	433 (19%)
40–59	1,331,512 (34%)	895 (40%)
60–66	398,529 (10%)	360 (16%)
Older than 67	645,948 (16%)	428 (19%)
Education
Elementary school	1,111,379 (28%)	472 (20%)
High school	1,625,640 (41%)	960 (43%)
University B.A.	811,360 (21%)	449 (20%)
University M.A.	269,627 (7%)	318 (14%)
No formal education	119,841 (3%)	57 (3%)

^aThe Norwegian sample data include individuals from the age of 18, while the Norwegian population data include individuals from the age of 16