Table 1.

Selected measures of mortality disparities across regions (n=77) and districts (n=2239), by sex (average for 2008–2012)

	Males			Females
	Districts	Regions	Districts to regions ratio	Districts	Regions	Districts to regions ratio
Population-unweighted measures
Max–min range	39.2	14.0	2.8	24.6	9.5	2.6
Max–min ratio	5.6	2.3	2.4	5.8	2.5	2.3
Standard deviation (SD)	3.5	2.4	1.5	1.8	1.3	1.4
Population-weighted measures
Inter-quartile range (IQR)	4.1	2.9	1.4	1.7	1.0	1.7
Standard deviation (SD)	3.6	2.8	1.3	1.4	1.0	1.4
Regression-based measures
Slope index of inequality (SII)	12.8	8.2	1.6	6.0	3.6	1.7
Relative index of inequality (RII)	2.1	1.6	1.3	2.1	1.5	1.4
Decomposition of total variance across districts
Between-region variance, %	65.4			52.8
Within-region variance, %	34.6			47.2

Relative measures of inequality are put in italics.