Visualizing Health and Well-Being Inequalities Among Older Europeans

Aurea Grané (), Irene Albarrán () and Qi Guo ()
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Aurea Grané: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Irene Albarrán: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Qi Guo: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2021, vol. 155, issue 2, No 4, 479-503

Abstract: Abstract In this study, we propose a hyper-simplified indicator of health and well-being for data visualization purposes in large datasets and apply it to SHARE survey data, the largest macro survey on health, ageing and retirement for 18 European countries. The indicator is based on four thematic sub-indicators, each focussing on a particular issue, which are obtained from more than twenty mixed variables measured on more than 60,000 respondents; Next, PCA is used to summarize their information in order to find and visualize profiles of “healthy ageing” across Europe. As a result, EU countries are classified in three groups, that segment the database into the least to the most individuals at risk of health and well-being. The methodology we propose is wide enough to be extended to other surveys or disciplines.

Keywords: ADL; Ageing; IADL; Principal component analysis; Well-being; 62-07; 62-09; 62H20; 62H99; 62P05 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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