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Published in final edited form as: J Health Econ. 2013 Oct 16;32(6):10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.10.002. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.10.002

Table A4.

Decomposition results.

Variable 1991 1993 1997 2000 2004 2006
N 11,577 9829 6745 5254 4652 4486
Average health 0.8119 0.809 0.8031 0.7957 0.7868 0.7837
Erreygers 0.013 (0.0049; 0.0222) 0.0175 (0.0082; 0.0260) 0.0315 (0.0211; 0.0402) 0.0332 (0.0237; 0.0415) 0.0329 (0.0169; 0.0459) 0.0408 (0.0222; 0.0556)
IRHI change w.r.t. 1991 0.0046 (−0.0011; 0.0086) 0.0185 (0.0105; 0.0252) 0.0203 (0.0114; 0.0277) 0.0199 (0.0053; 0.0331) 0.0278 (0.0100; 0.0432)
Main effects
 Other mean preserving changes in the income distribution 0.0012 (0.0004; 0.0024) 0.0014 (0.0005; 0.0039) 0.0028 (0.0005; 0.0077) 0.0040 (−0.0018; 0.0159) 0.0068 (0.0005; 0.0158)
 Income mobility across non-income variables 0.0034 (−0.0015; 0.0078) 0.0174 (0.0111; 0.0245) 0.0186 (0.0111; 0.0257) 0.0167 (0.0085; 0.0249) 0.0217 (0.0090; 0.0358)
 Income growth 0.0007 (−0.0011; 0.0014) 0.0016 (−0.0036; 0.0041) 0.0019 (−0.0049; 0.0058) 0.0019 (−0.0077; 0.0091) 0.0017 (−0.0113; 0.0132)
 Changes in other variables and initial income ranks −0.0007 (−0.0015; 0.0000) −0.0020 (−0.0032; −0.0007) −0.0031 (−0.0047; −0.0016) −0.0027 (−0.0045; −0.0009) −0.0023 (−0.0039; −0.0007)
Contributions of individual variables to income mobility across non-income variables
 Females
  10–29 Reference Reference Reference Reference Reference
  30–49 −0.0006 (−0.0014; 0.0002) −0.0011 (−0.0025; 0.0002) −0.0014 (−0.0033; 0.0003) −0.0007 (−0.0030; 0.0016) −0.0025 (−0.0052; 0.0006)
  50–69 0.0021 (−0.0003; 0.0041) 0.0073 (0.0047; 0.0101) 0.0054 (0.0025; 0.0081) 0.0059 (0.0030; 0.0090) 0.0060 (0.0024; 0.0101)
  70–89 0.0002 (−0.0014; 0.0019) 0.0016 (−0.0011; 0.0044) 0.0062 (0.0023; 0.0105) 0.0052 (0.0002; 0.0100) 0.0136 (0.0072; 0.0213)
 Males
  10–29 0.0000 (−0.0001; 0.0002) 0.0002 (0.0000; 0.0005) 0.0001 (0.0000; 0.0004) 0.0002 (0.0000; 0.0005) 0.0002 (0.0000; 0.0006)
  30–49 −0.0002 (−0.0007; 0.0004) −0.0004 (−0.0012; 0.0002) −0.0004 (−0.0012; 0.0003) 0.0001 (−0.0008; 0.0010) −0.0004 (−0.0018; 0.0010)
  50–69 0.0012 (−0.0004; 0.0027) 0.0030 (0.0009; 0.0054) 0.0011 (−0.0009; 0.0035) 0.0009 (−0.0015; 0.0034) 0.0015 (−0.0016; 0.0051)
  70–89 0.0001 (−0.0012; 0.0014) 0.0043 (0.0009; 0.0092) 0.0046 (0.0007; 0.0084) 0.0020 (−0.0071; 0.0087) 0.0016 (−0.0206; 0.0202)
 Region
  Inland – rural Reference Reference Reference Reference Reference
  Inland – urban 0.0001 (−0.0006; 0.0009) 0.0008 (−0.0007; 0.0030) 0.0007 (−0.0006; 0.0033) 0.0011 (−0.0009; 0.0037) 0.0008 (−0.0006; 0.0033)
  Coastal – rural 0.0004 (−0.0020; 0.0030) 0.0019 (−0.0008; 0.0049) 0.0022 (−0.0002; 0.0054) 0.0012 (−0.0018; 0.0045) 0.0007 (−0.0027; 0.0038)
  Coastal – urban 0.0000 (−0.0011; 0.0006) −0.0001 (−0.0034; 0.0007) 0.0000 (−0.0022; 0.0010) 0.0008 (−0.0012; 0.0031) 0.0002 (−0.0020; 0.0032)
Contributions of individual variables to changes in other variables and initial income ranks
 Females
  10–29 Reference Reference Reference Reference Reference
  30–49 −0.0001 (−0.0005; 0.0004) 0.0000 (−0.0008; 0.0009) −0.0002 (−0.0013; 0.0008) −0.0006 (−0.0021; 0.0007) −0.0007 (−0.0021; 0.0006)
  50–69 −0.0003 (−0.0011; 0.0004) −0.0019 (−0.0034; −0.0004) −0.0024 (−0.0046; −0.0003) −0.0012 (−0.0040; 0.0016) −0.0004 (−0.0036; 0.0026)
  70–89 0.0000 (−0.0005; 0.0006) 0.0008 (−0.0005; 0.0021) 0.0010 (−0.0007; 0.0026) 0.0001 (−0.0022; 0.0024) −0.0003 (−0.0030; 0.0022)
 Males
  10–29 0.0000 (−0.0001; 0.0000) 0.0000 (−0.0001; 0.0001) −0.0001 (−0.0003; 0.0000) −0.0001 (−0.0003; 0.0000) −0.0001 (−0.0002; 0.0000)
  30–49 0.0000 (−0.0002; 0.0003) 0.0001 (−0.0004; 0.0006) −0.0002 (−0.0009; 0.0004) −0.0005 (−0.0012; 0.0002) −0.0004 (−0.0012; 0.0004)
  50–69 −0.0003 (−0.0011; 0.0004) −0.0005 (−0.0020; 0.0009) −0.0005 (−0.0025; 0.0013) 0.0013 (−0.0011; 0.0036) 0.0015 (−0.0011; 0.0041)
  70–89 0.0000 (−0.0006; 0.0004) −0.0004 (−0.0017; 0.0010) −0.0006 (−0.0024; 0.0012) −0.0018 (−0.0040; 0.0004) −0.0019 (−0.0046; 0.0006)

Note: 99% confidence intervals between brackets; results are obtained after applying inverse probability weights (IPW) to Eqs. (4) and (5).