Age-adjusted disability rates and regional effects in Russia

Aleksandr Andreev and Charles M. Becker
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Aleksandr Andreev: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Charles M. Becker: Duke University

Demographic Research, 2010, vol. 23, issue 27, 749-770

Abstract: We provide three measures of age-standardized disability rates for each Russian region and show that most, though not all, of the regional patterns in disability prevalence disappear with standardization. Disability prevalence remains unusually high for women in St Petersburg and Belgorod but the "remote but healthy" pattern is nearly gone. We conclude that differences in age structure largely account for the differences in disability prevalence across regions of Russia.

Keywords: Russia; age-standardized disability; National Survey of Household Welfare and Program Participation (NOBUS) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.27

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