Assessment of disability weights at the provincial and city levels based on 93,254 respondents in Fujian, China: Findings from the Fujian disability weight measurement study

[...]it remains unknown whether people living in different cities share the same DWs. The correlation values of the probit regression coefficients were high among different sexes (r = 0.995), age groups (r range: 0.982–0.995), education levels (r range: 0.987–0.995), income levels (r = 0.999), location at developed and developing cities (r = 1.000), and cities (r range: 0.997–0.999),the P values for all of the correlation coefficients above were less than 0.001.The correlation coefficients of the probit regression coefficients for different subgroups ranged from 0.982 to 1.000. [...]the DWs of harmful alcohol use and moderate acute episode infectious disease were lower in Fujian than in Japan, while the DWs of moderate episode major depressive disorder and manic episode bipolar disorder were higher in Fujian compared to Japan. [...]the DWs of several stroke-related health states, moderate dementia, and severe dementia were lower in Fujian compared to both Japan and GDB 2013. [...]our study could not refute the influence of cultural differences on health state preferences.