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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Res Econ Inequal. 2013 Jan 1;21:157–192. doi: 10.1108/s1049-2585(2013)0000021008

Table 4.

Measures of inequity in mortality with different ethical stances and reference values

All illegitimate Control/Preference Standardization SES-inequality

Reference values DU FG DU FG DU FG DU FG

Variance best 0.0413 0.0413 0.0300 0.0404 0.0004 0.0048 0.0000 0.0008
worst 0.0413 0.0413 0.0757 0.0386 0.0048 0.0199 0.0011 0.0010
mean 0.0413 0.0413 0.0358 0.0392 0.0021 0.0033 0.0004 0.0007
Absolute Gini best 0.0956 0.0956 0.0746 0.0923 0.0106 0.0357 0.0027 0.0113
worst 0.0956 0.0956 0.1384 0.0941 0.0374 0.0739 0.0144 0.0167
mean 0.0956 0.0956 0.0875 0.0923 0.0250 0.0304 0.0088 0.0127
CI best −0.0037 −0.0159 −0.0027 −0.0103
worst −0.0190 −0.0018 −0.0144 −0.0083
mean −0.0116 −0.0132 −0.0088 −0.0098

Note: DU = direct unfairness, FG = fairness gap. In the case of the concentration index (CI) the columns “DU” and “FG” correspond to direct and indirect standardization respectively.