On a new class of measures for health inequality based on ordinal data

Guangming Lv (), Yang Wang and Yongsheng Xu

The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, vol. 13, issue 3, 465-477

Abstract: In many instances, individual health statuses are self-reported on several ordinal scales. The ordinal nature of the data creates some challenging problems in the measurement of inequalities of various distributions of health statuses in a population. In this paper, we propose and discuss a class of measures of inequalities of heath status distributions based on such ordinal data. Our measures are easy to compute and have some desirable properties often required for a reasonable measure for health inequality. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Health inequality; Self-reported health status; Additivity; Invariance of parallel shifts; Normalization; Simple aversion to median-preserving spreads (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10888-014-9289-4

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