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Socio-Economic Indexes in Surveys for Comparisons between Countries

Batista-Foguet, J. M. ; Fortiana, J. ; Currie, C. ; Villalbí, J. R.

Social indicators research, 2004-07, Vol.67 (3), p.315-332 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Socio-Economic Indexes in Surveys for Comparisons between Countries
Autor: Batista-Foguet, J. M. ; Fortiana, J. ; Currie, C. ; Villalbí, J. R.
Assuntos: Adolescents ; Bedrooms ; Children ; Cluster Sampling ; Comparative analysis ; Comparative studies ; Composite indices ; Cross cultural studies ; Crosscultural Analysis ; Crossnational studies ; Denmark ; Equality indexes ; Family background ; Family papers ; Foreign Countries ; Health ; Health behavior ; Health behaviour ; Health surveys ; History, theory and methodology ; Holidays & special occasions ; Indexes ; Indexes (Measures) ; Inequality ; International ; Latvia ; Matrices ; Methodology ; Optimal Scaling ; Polls & surveys ; Portugal ; Questionnaires ; Rating Scales ; Research methods ; School age children ; Scotland ; Selfreport measures ; Social Indicators ; Social inequalities ; Social inequality ; Social research ; Socioeconomic factors ; Socioeconomic Status ; Socioeconomics ; Sociology ; Statistical methods ; Studies ; Teenagers ; Term weighting ; U.S.A ; United Kingdom ; United States of America ; Variables ; Welfare economics
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Descrição: The study of socio-economic inequalities from a cross-national perspective has been hampered by the lack of adequate common indices of socio-economic status that can be used in a self-report survey instrument. This paper examines the construction and the properties of global social indexes in general, and of the Family Affluence Scale (henceforth FAS) in particular. The paper proposes a new strategy for making comparisons of the global index with stratified data, building a revised FAS based on Adapted Canonical Variate Analysis (henceforth ACVA). This alternative strategy for constructing a global index is available in standard software, and the new proposal for stratified data only requires a simple program, which is justified, explained and provided in the text. Data come from the 1998 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC), a WHO Cross-National Study using cluster sampling of schoolchildren from five countries: Denmark, Latvia, Portugal, Scotland and the USA. The results reveal that in every country we would have had a completely different evaluation of the three indicators of Family Affluence if we had used either linear or non linear approaches to compute the global indexes. Moreover, Family Affluence comparisons among countries shows that the relative contribution of the three indicators to the overall FAS, changes from country to country. We conclude that separate indicators of Family Affluence are not equally relevant in each country and, as a consequence, do not contribute equally to the global index. For cross-cultural studies, the strategy for constructing an index should be country specific. The methodological developments presented in the paper open up opportunities to study socio-economic patterning of health among young people in the developed world, since self completed surveys can now employ a common measure of family material wealth. The findings show that the RFAS (Revised FAS) is a useful index of socio-economic status for use in national and cross-national surveys of adolescent health and health behaviour. The new strategy for weighting observed indicators in the index gives it enhanced power to detect inequalities.
Editor: Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Idioma: Inglês

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Socio-Economic Indexes in Surveys for Comparisons between Countries

Batista-Foguet, J. M. ; Fortiana, J. ; Currie, C. ; Villalbí, J. R.

Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers

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