health_data

A data set on deprivation and self-rated health outcomes for postcode sectors from 2011 Scottish Census by ethnicity.

datasets

Tools for calculating deprivation measures and analysing health outcomes and mortality by deprivation.
Included are the functions: zscore() and w_pcntile() for developing deprivation measures and the functions smr(),
st_rate() and rii() for calculating standardized mortality ratios, direct standardized rates and Slope and Relative
indices of Inequality (SII and RII). Test data is included (dep_data and health_data).
The RII/SII are calculated following Pamuk ER (1985) <doi:10.1080/0032472031000141256>.
The confidence intervals for SII/RII are calculated using a multinomial distribution as described in Lumme et al (2015)
<doi:10.1007/s10742-015-0137-1>.

Mirjam Allik

SocEpi

Health Inequality Analysis

health_data function

A data frame with 182160 rows and 15 variables:<dl class="dl-horizontal">
 <dt>PS_code</dt><dd>postcode sector code</dd>
 <dt>PS_name</dt><dd>postcode sector name</dd>
 <dt>health_board</dt><dd>health board name</dd>
 <dt>council_area</dt><dd>Council area name</dd>
 <dt>ur2fold</dt><dd>Two-fold urban rural classification (created based on output area level data).
 Used in this data set for illustration only.</dd>
 <dt>total_pop</dt><dd>Total population of the postcode sector</dd>
 <dt>carstairs</dt><dd>The 2011 Carstairs score</dd>
 <dt>quintile</dt><dd>Quintiles of the Carstairs score; 1 - least deprived, 5 - most deprived</dd>
 <dt>decile</dt><dd>Deciles of the Carstairs score; 1 - least deprived, 10 - most deprived</dd>
 <dt>ethnicity</dt><dd>Ethnic group, "all" for all people</dd>
 <dt>age</dt><dd>age group, 1 - "0-4", 2 - "5-9", up to 18 - "85 and above"</dd>
 <dt>bad</dt><dd>number of people in bad general health</dd>
 <dt>fg</dt><dd>number of people in fairly good health</dd>
 <dt>good</dt><dd>number of people in good health</dd>
 <dt>pop</dt><dd>number of people in age and ethnic group in postcode sector</dd>
 </dl>

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Scottish health and deprivation data — health_data

A data frame with 182160 rows and 15 variables:<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
 <dt>PS_code</dt><dd>postcode sector code</dd>
 <dt>PS_name</dt><dd>postcode sector name</dd>
 <dt>health_board</dt><dd>health board name</dd>
 <dt>council_area</dt><dd>Council area name</dd>
 <dt>ur2fold</dt><dd>Two-fold urban rural classification (created based on output area level data).
 Used in this data set for illustration only.</dd>
 <dt>total_pop</dt><dd>Total population of the postcode sector</dd>
 <dt>carstairs</dt><dd>The 2011 Carstairs score</dd>
 <dt>quintile</dt><dd>Quintiles of the Carstairs score; 1 - least deprived, 5 - most deprived</dd>
 <dt>decile</dt><dd>Deciles of the Carstairs score; 1 - least deprived, 10 - most deprived</dd>
 <dt>ethnicity</dt><dd>Ethnic group, "all" for all people</dd>
 <dt>age</dt><dd>age group, 1 - "0-4", 2 - "5-9", up to 18 - "85 and above"</dd>
 <dt>bad</dt><dd>number of people in bad general health</dd>
 <dt>fg</dt><dd>number of people in fairly good health</dd>
 <dt>good</dt><dd>number of people in good health</dd>
 <dt>pop</dt><dd>number of people in age and ethnic group in postcode sector</dd>
 </dl>

health_data: Scottish health and deprivation data

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