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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: Health Econ. 2012 Apr 18;22(5):623–629. doi: 10.1002/hec.2823

Table 2.

Decomposition of Changes in Income-related Health Inequality

Variable
(1)
CDS-II		 (2)
CDS-III
Concentration index in the final period ( CI f ) 0.107
(0.006)		 0.112
(0.006)
Concentration index in the initial period: CDS-I ( CI s ) 0.119
(0.007)
Concentration index of the final period health ranked by initial income ( CI fs ) 0.101 0.102
Average health change ( Δh¯ ) 0.027 0.008
Final period average health ( h¯f ) 0.570 0.552
Concentration index of health changes ranked by initial income ( CI Δs ) −0.286 −1.181
Income-related health mobility ( M H ) 0.018
(0.005)		 0.017
(0.006)
Progressivity index P 0.380
(0.107)		 1.137
(1.798)
Scale factor q 0.047
(0.070)		 0.015
(0.008)
Health-related income mobility ( M R ) 0.006
(0.003)		 0.010
(0.004)

Note: Table 2 shows decomposition of changes in the cross-sectional CI from CDS-I to CDS-II (column 1) and from CDS-I to CDS-III (column 2). Standard errors generated using bootstrap techniques are in parentheses.