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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 5.

Difference in inequity between pairwise scenario comparisons calculated at different reference values

Comparison Variance Absolute Gini Concentration index

Direct unfairness Fairness gap Direct unfairness Fairness gap Direct standardization Indirect standardization

min max min max min max min max min max min max

All illegitimate
Baseline-Education 0.0039 0.0039 0.0039 0.0039 0.0071 0.0071 0.0071 0.0071
Baseline-Exercise 0.0104 0.0104 0.0104 0.0104 0.0152 0.0152 0.0152 0.0152
Education-Exercise 0.0065 0.0065 0.0065 0.0065 0.0081 0.0081 0.0081 0.0081

Preference/Control
Baseline-Education 0.0029 0.0062 0.0031 0.0038 0.0068 0.0077 0.0050 0.0073
Baseline-Exercise 0.0000 0.0000 0.0063 0.0096 0.0000 0.0101 0.0124 0.0142
Education-Exercise −0.0062 −0.0029 0.0032 0.0058 −0.0077 −0.0068 0.0056 0.0092

Standardization
Baseline-Education 0.0001 0.0024 0.0022 0.0017 0.0012 0.0092 0.0039 0.0074 −0.0167 −0.0027 −0.1025 −0.1025
Baseline-Exercise 0.0001 0.0065 0.0039 0.0031 0.0021 0.0316 0.0074 0.0137 −0.0067 −0.0007 −0.0044 −0.0044
Education-Exercise 0.0006 0.0056 0.0021 0.0021 −0.0015 0.0277 0.0054 0.0064 0.0015 0.0144 0.0059 0.0059

SES
Baseline-Education 0.0000 0.0015 0.0001 0.0008 0.0027 0.0167 0.0009 0.0113 −0.0167 −0.0027 −0.0103 −0.0103
Baseline-Exercise 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000
Education-Exercise −0.0015 −0.0000 −0.0008 −0.0001 −0.0167 −0.0027 −0.0113 −0.0009 0.0027 0.0167 0.0103 0.0103

Note: For all ethical stances, the differences in the inequity measures between the two counterfactual situations (in the first column) were calculated for all possible sets of reference values. The table gives the minima and maxima for these differences. If maximum and minimum values of the difference have different sign, this points to a reversal in the inequity ranking of the counterfactual situations induced by the choice of reference values. These cases of rank reversal are indicated in bold.