Table 5 Characteristics of survey participants stratified by country and survey wave

N

2,734

2,252

N/A

1,003

1,013

N/A

1,020

1,011

N/A

Age (Mean, SD)

42.6 (14.3)

42.6 (13.9)

0.9447

47.8 (17.1)

46.7 (16.6)

0.1541

46.9 (17.0)

46.9 (16.6)

0.9673

Female (n, %)

1,361 (49.9)

1,101 (48.9)

0.5152

508 (50.7)

514 (50.7)

0.9669

524 (51.4)

518 (51.2)

0.9511

College education (n, %)

1,999 (73.1)

1,447 (64.3)

 < 0.001

307 (30.6)

357 (35.2)

0.0269

347 (34.0)

344 (34.0)

0.9977

Employment (n, %)

2,018 (74.8)

1,737 (78.2)

0.0056

519 (51.7)

569 (56.2)

0.0463

506 (49.6)

513 (50.7)

0.6093

Fear on health during pandemic (Mean, SD)

5.20 (2.95)

5.50 (3.07)

 < 0.001

4.65 (2.88)

4.36 (2.64)

0.0206

4.05 (2.77)

3.88 (2.65)

0.1656

Fear on financial situation during pandemic (Mean, SD)

5.79 (3.00)

5.36 (3.13)

 < 0.001

4.49 (2.89)

3.86 (2.75)

 < 0.001

3.82 (2.74)

3.29 (2.69)

 < 0.001

EQ-5D-5L Utilities (Mean, SD)

0.822 (0.222)

0.823 (0.221)

0.7904

0.768 (0.260)

0.783 (0.237)

0.1785

0.808 (0.248)

0.777 (0.271)

0.0067

Scaled EQ-VAS (Mean, SD)

0.746 (0.192)

0.764 (0.186)

 < 0.001

0.687 (0.214)

0.682 (0.203)

0.5638

0.692 (0.208)

0.678 (0.217)

 < 0.001