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Ordinal and cardinal measures of health inequality: an empirical comparison

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 114 KB
Volume: 19
Category: Article
ISSN: 1057-9230
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1472

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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. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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