Health status convergence at the local level: empirical evidence from Austria

Table 2 Empirical Results - σ-Convergence

Method	σ		CV		L
Period	1	2	1	2	1	2
SMR Males	192.6739	128.5883	0.1384	0.1377	0.0087	0.0103
SMR Females	157.0589	91.9134	0.1837	0.1631	0.0139	0.0134
SMR Overall	159.1242	98.1804	0.1488	0.1371	0.0096	0.0099
Gender Gap	146.8487	97.1865	0.2734	0.2626	--	--

Notes: σ reports weighted standard deviations, whereas CV corresponds to the Coefficient of variation and L reports the Theil-index of inequality, respectively. In the case of CV, weighted standard deviations were used. L could not be calculated in the case of the gender mortality gap due to negative values of this variable in 57 cases, where the natural logarithm could not be calculated.

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