کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
961499 929865 2012 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Inequality decomposition by population subgroups for ordinal data
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Inequality decomposition by population subgroups for ordinal data
چکیده انگلیسی
We present a class of decomposable inequality indices for ordinal data (e.g. self-reported health survey). It is characterized by well-known inequality axioms (e.g. scale invariance) and a decomposability axiom which states that an index can be represented as a function of inequality values in subgroups and subgroup sizes. The only decomposable indices are strictly monotonic transformations of the weighted average of frequencies in categories. Among the indices proposed in the literature only the absolute value index (Abul Naga and Yalcin, 2008; Apouey, 2007) is decomposable. As an empirical illustration we calculate regional contributions to overall health inequality in Switzerland.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Health Economics - Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 15-21
نویسندگان
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