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This Handbook is the definitive resource for anyone wishing to quickly look up and understand key concepts and measurements relating to socioeconomic position and inequalities. A range of key concepts is defined and measures of socioeconomic position and inequality described. Alphabetical listings, cross-referencing, graphs and worked examples, references to web and other sources of further information, all contribute to making the Handbook both engaging and accessible for a wide audience. For students, academics and others involved in social science research it answers questions such as: · 'What's the official government measure of poverty?' · 'What factors make up the Townsend Index of Deprivation?' · 'What is a gini coefficient?' · 'I have to write a report on tackling inequalities in my area - what are the key issues I should consider before I begin?' For practitioners, policy makers, journalists and others who must read, understand and use research in fields as diverse as health, criminology, education, the environment, transport and housing it provides a one-stop, authoritative guide to making sense of and evaluating the significance of often complex methodologies. The authors are all eminent researchers in the field of health inequalities. They have together produced two glossaries for the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health and have published a large number of books and articles in learned academic journals.
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The handbook of inequality and socioeconomic position
Concepts and measures
Mary Shaw, Bruna Galobardes, Debbie A. Lawlor, John Lynch, Ben Wheeler and George Davey Smith
The HANDBOOKof inequality and socioeconomic position
Mary Shaw, Bruna Galobardes, Debbie A. Lawlor, John Lynch, Ben Wheeler and George Davey Smith
For Lily Florence Wells
First published in Great Britain in 2007 by
Policy Press University of Bristol 1-9 Old Park Hill Bristol BS2 8BB UK t: +44 (0)117 954 5940 e: pp-info@bristol.ac.uk www.policypress.co.uk
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© Mary Shaw, Bruna Galobardes, Debbie A. Lawlor, John Lynch, Ben Wheeler and George Davey Smith 2007
ISBN 978 14473 4258 8 EPDF
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Table of contents by category
Acknowledgements How to use this book
Part One:Key concepts 1.1 Deprivation 1.2 Ethnicity 1.3 Health equity audits 1.4 Inequality/equality 1.5 Inequity/equity 1.6 Lay epidemiology 1.7 Life course socioeconomic position 1.8 Living standards 1.9 Ofcial and vital statistics 1.10 Poverty 1.11 Psychosocial factors 1.12 Segregation 1.13 Social capital 1.14 Social class 1.15 Social exclusion 1.16 Social mobility 1.17 Social status 1.18 Social stratication 1.19 Status inconsistency 1.20 Wealth
Part Two:Measures of socioeconomic position 2.1 Amenities 2.2 Benet claimants 2.3 Breadline Britain and the Millennium Survey of Poverty and Social Exclusion 2.4 Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratication Scale (CAMSIS) 2.5 Car ownership and access 2.6 Carstairs Deprivation Index 2.7 Child poverty – the ofcial government measure 2.8 Deprivation indices 2.9 Education 2.10 Erikson and Goldthorpe class schema 2.11 Fuel poverty 2.12 Housing conditions 2.13 Housing status (including homelessness)
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2.14 Housing tenure 2.15 Housing wealth 2.16 Income 2.17 Index of Local Conditions 1991 2.18 Index of Local Deprivation 1998 2.19 Indices of Deprivation 2000 2.20 Indices of Deprivation 2004 2.21 Jarman underprivileged area (UPA) score 2.22 Job insecurity 2.23 National Statistics Socioeconomic Classication (NS-SEC) 2.24 Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure (NIMDM) 2005 2.25 Occupation-based measures 2.26 Occupational social class – Registrar General’s Social Classes (RGSC) 2.27 Overcrowding 2.28 Poverty – the ofcial government measure 2.29 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2006 2.30 Townsend Index of Deprivation 2.31 Unemployment 2.32 Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) 2005
Part Three:Measures of inequality 3.1 Absolute differences 3.2 Dissimilarity Index 3.3 Gini coefcient 3.4 Households Below Average Income (HBAI) 3.5 Index of Disparity 3.6 Measures of average disproportionality 3.7 Range 3.8 Relative Concentration Index (RCI) 3.9 Relative differences 3.10 Relative Index of Inequality (RII) 3.11 Slope Index of Inequality (SII) 3.12 Standardised outcomes 3.13 Theil Index and mean log deviation
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151 154 157 160 163 165 169 171 176 178 181 184 192
Part Four: Theoretical and methodological issues 4.1 Age-period cohort analysis (or effects) 199 4.2 Atomistic fallacy 202 4.3 Bar charts 203 4.4 Box and whisker plots 205 4.5 Cartograms 206 4.6 Choropleth maps 209 4.7 Correlation coefcients 212
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4.8 Ecological fallacy 4.9 Funnel plots 4.10 Geographic information systems (GIS) 4.11 Incidence 4.12 Line graphs 4.13 Percentages 4.14 Populations 4.15 Prevalence 4.16 Proportional mortality ratio (PMR) 4.17 Proportions 4.18 Scatter plots
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Table of contents by alphabetical order
3.1 Absolute differences 4.1 Age-period cohort analysis (or effects) 2.1 Amenities 4.2 Atomistic fallacy 4.3 Bar charts 2.2 Benet claimants 4.4 Box and whisker plots 2.3 Breadline Britain and the Millennium Survey of Poverty and Social Exclusion 2.4 Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratication Scale (CAMSIS) 2.5 Car ownership and access 2.6 Carstairs Deprivation Index 4.5 Cartograms 2.7 Child poverty – the ofcial government measure 4.6 Choropleth maps 4.7 Correlation coefcients 1.1 Deprivation 2.8 Deprivation indices 3.2 Dissimilarity Index 4.8 Ecological fallacy 2.9 Education 2.10 Erikson and Goldthorpe class schema 1.2 Ethnicity 2.11 Fuel poverty 4.9 Funnel plots 3.3 Gini coefcient 4.10 Geographic information systems (GIS) 1.3 Health equity audits 3.4 Households Below Average Income (HBAI) 2.12 Housing conditions 2.13 Housing status (including homelessness) 2.14 Housing tenure 2.15 Housing wealth 4.11 Incidence 2.16 Income 3.5 Index of Disparity 2.17 Index of Local Conditions 1991 2.18 Index of Local Deprivation 1998 2.19 Indices of Deprivation 2000 2.20 Indices of Deprivation 2004 1.4 Inequality/equality
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TABLE OF CONTENTS BY ALPHABETICAL ORDER
1.5 Inequity/equity 2.21 Jarman underprivileged area (UPA) score 2.22 Job insecurity 1.6 Lay epidemiology 1.7 Life course socioeconomic position 4.12 Line graphs 1.8 Living standards 3.6 Measures of average disproportionality 2.23 National Statistics Socioeconomic Classication (NS-SEC) 2.24 Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure (NIMDM) 2005 2.25 Occupation-based measures 2.26 Occupational social class – Registrar General’s Social Classes (RGSC) 1.9 Ofcial and vital statistics 2.27 Overcrowding 4.13 Percentages 4.14 Populations 1.10 Poverty 2.28 Poverty – the ofcial government measure 4.15 Prevalence 4.16 Proportional mortality ratio (PMR) 4.17 Proportions 1.11 Psychosocial factors 3.7 Range 3.8 Relative Concentration Index (RCI) 3.9 Relative differences 3.10 Relative Index of Inequality (RII) 4.18 Scatter plots 2.29 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2006 1.12 Segregation 3.11 Slope Index of Inequality (SII) 1.13 Social capital 1.14 Social class 1.15 Social exclusion 1.16 Social mobility 1.17 Social status 1.18 Social stratication 3.12 Standardised outcomes 1.19 Status inconsistency 3.13 Theil Index and mean log deviation 2.30 Townsend Index of Deprivation 2.31 Unemployment 1.20 Wealth 2.32 Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) 2005
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