These values include costs sustained by lost income, lost household production, disability, and health care costs.
Lost paid workdays and lost household workdays were summed separately, and then totalled for lost productive time.
Left behind, as if in haste, were remnants of a lost household.
lost work time; lost household work time; and.
With lost household work, the opposite was the case (Table 5).
Lost paid worktime was higher among males than females, but the reverse was true of lost household worktime.
Among participants with migraine, rural dwellers and females lost more time on average than urban dwellers and males, in both cases mostly accounted for by lost household worktime.
We separately summed the first and second items (i, ii) to estimate lost paid worktime, and the third and fourth (iii, iv) to estimate lost household worktime.
This suggests an added worker effect: as applicants remain out of the labor market for a longer time, their spouse starts working to balance lost household income.
Regardless of headache type, lost productivity correlated with headache frequency, both expressed in days/year, albeit only weakly (Pearson correlations: lost paid worktime 0.271; lost household worktime 0.360; total lost productivity 0.402; all p < 0.0005).
