Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/184822 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP17/22
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
Much analysis of the socioeconomic gradient of overweight/obesity has involved the calculation of concentration indices for the incidence of these conditions. However this analysis ignores the severity of the conditions, in particular whether there is a gradient to how far are people above the relevant thresholds. Calculation of the concentration index for severity based measures for a dataset for Ireland reveals a much stronger gradient than for the incidence based measures. It is recommended that analysis of severity should always accompany analysis of the incidence of overweight/obesity.
Subjects: 
Overweight
obesity
socioeconomic gradient
concentration index
JEL: 
I14
I32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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