Table 5 Decomposition with household income as the income measure
From: Health-income inequality: the effects of the Icelandic economic collapse
Overall | Males | Females | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2007 | 2009 | 2007 | 2009 | 2007 | 2009 | |
% contribution | ||||||
Household income | 36.23 | 42.33 | 43.58 | 44.18 | 35.06 | 38.79 |
Age | −1.30 | 3.21 | −3.58 | 7.41 | 1.42 | −1.23 |
Female | 1.11 | 1.22 | ||||
Single | 1.41 | 0.15 | 3.32 | 3.24 | 0.29 | −4.71 |
In a relationship | 0.19 | 0.22 | −0.04 | 0.04 | 0.92 | 0.86 |
Cohabiting | 0.13 | −0.35 | −0.59 | 1.17 | 0.39 | 1.12 |
Divorced | −0.01 | −0.32 | 0.52 | 3.03 | −1.40 | −4.95 |
Widowed | 1.53 | −0.68 | 2.17 | 2.37 | −0.61 | −2.79 |
Low education | 3.54 | 2.64 | −0.94 | 3.04 | 9.07 | 3.56 |
High education | 4.42 | −0.12 | 5.14 | 0.23 | 4.32 | 0.01 |
Business owner | −0.47 | 0.80 | −0.45 | 0.44 | −0.11 | 0.61 |
Student | −1.84 | −0.67 | −7.56 | −0.48 | 0.20 | −0.53 |
Homemaker | 0.28 | 1.11 | 0.53 | 0.63 | −1.71 | 0.15 |
Parent leave | 0.23 | −0.28 | 0.30 | 0.25 | −0.17 | −0.32 |
Temporary ill | 7.39 | 7.04 | 7.62 | 8.70 | 6.29 | 4.80 |
Retired | 4.96 | 4.34 | 6.57 | 0.62 | 4.83 | 6.54 |
Unemployed | 2.72 | 0.03 | 6.35 | −3.41 | 1.10 | 1.52 |
Disabled | 18.45 | 16.49 | 11.71 | 10.34 | 22.08 | 22.76 |
Underweight | 1.20 | −0.64 | 1.06 | −0.87 | 1.16 | −0.25 |
Overweight | −0.39 | 0.10 | −0.40 | 0.19 | 1.05 | 1.82 |
Obese | 4.09 | 5.97 | −1.83 | 0.49 | 9.01 | 13.99 |
Daily smoker | 7.05 | 7.65 | 7.70 | 6.04 | 6.86 | 9.01 |
Weekly smoker | −0.15 | −0.01 | −1.28 | 0.00 | 0.22 | −0.11 |
Seldom smoker | −1.55 | −0.53 | −0.67 | 0.09 | −2.47 | −1.39 |
Former smoker | −0.67 | 0.18 | −0.09 | 0.36 | −0.98 | −1.31 |
5+ alcoholic drinks | −0.01 | 0.14 | −0.01 | −0.15 | 0.05 | −0.62 |