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Ordinal and cardinal measures of health inequality: An empirical comparison
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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series ; No. WP08/13
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
General Welfare; Well-Being
- Subject
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Inequality
cardinal
ordinal
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Madden, David
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Veröffentlichung
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University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics
- (where)
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Dublin
- (when)
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2008
- Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Madden, David
- University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics
Time of origin
- 2008
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