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Respondent IDDisvalue of life imprisonment, relative to dying

Full question: "(1) If the badness of dying (when you would otherwise have lived a full, healthy life) is 100%, how bad would you consider life imprisonment? * Give your answer as a percentage (e.g. 0.1%, 1%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 100% etc) – note that it doesn't have to be a whole number; you can use decimals. ** Life imprisonment should be understood as imprisonment for the rest of one's natural life. Aside from not being able to physically leave the prison, you also experience things like: (a) unreliable access to healthcare; (b) no access to computers or cell phones; (c) limited ability to have personal effects or property; (d) limited access to food or books or other entertainment; (e) inability to take or hold jobs beyond what work the prison assigns you; and (f) limited visiting time with family and friends."		Disvalue of being completely unable to do what you might generally do for pleasure, relative to life imprisonment

Full question: "(2) If the badness of life imprisonment is 100%, how bad would you consider being completely unable to do what you might generally do for pleasure (e.g. completely being unable to eat or drink anything but water and bland prison food; or travel; or read; or watch movies; or listen to music; or engage in any hobbies you can think of etc)? * Give your answer as a percentage (e.g. 0.1%, 1%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 100% etc) – note that it doesn't have to be a whole number; you can use decimals."		Disvalue of being completely unable to eat and drink what you might want to eat and drink, relative to being completely unable to do what you might generally do for pleasure

Full question: "(3) If the badness of being completely unable to do what you might generally do for pleasure (e.g. completely being unable to eat or drink anything but water and bland prison food; or travel; or read; or watch movies; or listen to music; or engage in any hobbies you can think of etc) is 100%, how bad would you consider being completely unable to eat and drink what you might want to eat and drink (i.e. not being able to at all eat anything but bland prison food, and to drink anything but water)? * Give your answer as a percentage (e.g. 0.1%, 1%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 100% etc) – note that it doesn't have to be a whole number; you can use decimals."		Disvalue of being completely unable to drink sugary drinks, relative to being completely unable to eat and drink what you might want to eat and drink

Full Question: "(4)(b) If the badness of being completely unable to eat and drink what you might want to eat and drink (i.e. not being able to at all eat anything but bland prison food, and to drink anything but water) is 100%, how bad would you consider being completely unable to drink sugary drinks (i.e. you can no longer drink classic sugary Coke, Pepsi, Sprite etc)? * Note that this does not include artificially-sweetened beverages (i.e. Coke Zero, Diet Pepsi, Sprite Zero etc) – you would still be able to drink those. * Give your answer as a percentage (e.g. 0.1%, 1%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 100% etc) – note that it doesn't have to be a whole number; you can use decimals."		Percentage of annual income you are willing to give up to be allowed to drink sugary drinks again for that year, after the government banned you from eating salty food

Full Question: "(5)(b) If the government banned you from drinking sugary drinks, what percentage of your annual income would you be willing to give up to be allowed to be allowed to drink sugary drinks again for that year? * Give your answer as a percentage (e.g. 0.1%, 1%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 100% etc) – note that it doesn't have to be a whole number; you can use decimals."		Disvalue of being completely unable to drink sugary drinks in DALY terms per annum (Step-by-step evaluation process estimate)

Note: We can use the foregoing answers on the disvalue of life imprisonment relative to dying etc, to calculate the disvalue of being completely unable to drink sugary drinks relative to dying, and then apply the value of a full healthy life in DALY terms. The figure is then transformed to a per annum value by dividing through with life expectancy. For details on the value of life and on life expectancy, refer to CEARCH's evaluative framework.		Disvalue of being completely unable to drink sugary drinks in DALY terms per annum (Willingness-to pay estimate)

Note: We can use the foregoing answer on the willingness to pay to be able to drink sugary drinks, apply a binary logarithm transformation, and then apply the value of doubling income for one person for one year in DALY terms. For details on the value of income, refer to CEARCH's evaluative framework, as linked to in the main CEA.		Disvalue of being completely unable to eat drink sugary drinks in DALY terms (Individual average estimate)

Note: Averages the results from both the step-by-step evaluation process and the willingness-to-pay approach. A geometric mean is used as the results seem to vary significantly in terms of magnitudes depending on the estimation strategy, and the geometric mean gets us closer to the correct magnitude, which is ultimately what's important. For answers where zeroes are involved, we revert to an arithmetic mean. In terms of weights used: (a) the step-by-step evaluation process has the advantage of working against the 1% fallacy (i.e. assigning an arbitrary low value like 1% when asked to estimate a value which is low, but which could be magnitudes lower); however (b) the willingness-to-pay approach is probably able to elicit more concrete, relevant intuitions; and in any case (c) the step-by-step evaluation approach has far higher spread, which suggests a lack of accuracy/unreliability. Overall, therefore, I weigh the willingness-to-pay estimate a magnitude more than the step-by-step evaluation process estimate.
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110%10%10%0.01%1%0.00000008660.00287105860.0011144928
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240%1%0.10%0.10%0.10%0.00000000350.00028839480.0001029602
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360%75%5%0.10%0.01%0.00001948100.00002885250.0000278405
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495%95%70%0%0%0.00000000000.00000000000.0000000000
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5200%200%20%5%0.50%0.03463295270.00143910030.0019216431
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640%80%15%2%0.01%0.00083119090.00002885250.0000391621
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7110%70%40%20%5%0.05333474710.01407786560.0158900516
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895%99%50%0.10%0%0.00040715370.00000000000.0000370140
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970%80%15%0.10%0%0.00007272920.00000000000.0000066117
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1030%120%0.10%0.50%0.01%0.00000155850.00002885250.0000221288
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1170%50%50%90%0.05%0.13636725120.00014423340.0002688927
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1285%95%60%0%0%0.00000000000.00000000000.0000000000
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1395%85%65%5%0%0.02272246380.00000000000.0020656785
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1495%100%50%1%0%0.00411266310.00000000000.0003738785
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15100%100%2%0%0%0.00000000000.00000000000.0000000000
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1670%40%90%0%0%0.00000000000.00000000000.0000000000
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Disvalue of being completely unable to drink sugary drinks in DALY terms (Population average estimate): Uses an arithmetic mean since given the distribution of individual cost (even if across magnitudes) in expectation the arithmetic mean is what the average person will suffer from the soda tax
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