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st: Concentration Index for Binary Health Variable
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Abekah Nkrumah <[email protected]>
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st: Concentration Index for Binary Health Variable
Date
Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:34:01 +0000
Dear Statalist,
Am using DASP to compute concentration indices with my health variable
being binary. My aim is to do cross country comparison. However
Wagstaff argues that for a binary variable, a cross country comparison
could be problematic because of possible differences in the mean of
the health variable for different countries. So his suggestion is for
one to normalise the concentration index by dividing through by 1- the
mean.
I want to find out if that is what the DASP do when you use a binary
variable to compute a concentration index or that will have to be done
manually afterwards.
Thank you very much
Regards
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