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Ordinal and cardinal measures of health inequality: an empirical comparison
- Source :
- Health economics. 19(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based upon ordinal data and more standard indices using ordinal data, which has been transformed into cardinal data. This paper compares inequality rankings across a number of different approaches and finds considerable sensitivity to the choice between ordinal- and cardinal-based indices. There is relatively little sensitivity to the ethical choices made by the analyst in terms of the weight attached to different parts of the distribution.
- Subjects :
- Ordinal data
Adult
Male
Empirical comparison
Inequality
Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject
jel:D63
Ordinal regression
Sensitivity and Specificity
Young Adult
Statistics
Econometrics
Interval regression
Humans
Sensitivity (control systems)
media_common
Mathematics
Aged
Inequality, cardinal, ordinal
Cardinal
Ordinal
Set theory
Equality--Statistical methods
Social indicators
Models, Statistical
Health Policy
Health Status Disparities
Middle Aged
Health equity
jel:I31
Cross-Sectional Studies
Social Class
jel:I18
Female
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10991050
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Health economics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d641334bcadd5a91e4347dba682b999e