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Table 3 Decomposition of inter-county inequality (n = 2712) by province for three categories of PHWs in China, 2012a

From: Measuring inequalities in the public health workforce at county-level Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in China

Workforce category

Inequality measure

Overall inter-county inequality

Within-province inequality

Between-province inequality

Within-province inequality

(% of overall)b

Between-province inequality

(% of overall)b

Staff

Theil T

0.0655

0.0489

0.0168

74.4%

25.6%

Gini

0.2948

    

Health professionals

Theil T

0.0702

0.0542

0.0160

77.2%

22.8%

Gini

0.3038

    

Field

epidemiological investigators

Theil T

0.1088

0.0866

0.0222

79.6%

20.4%

Gini

0.3788

    
  1. Abbreviation: PHW, public health workforce
  2. a Data source: National cross-sectional survey of the CDC system for 2012, Division of Disease Control and Prevention, Ministry of Health. County number is 2712 because missing data
  3. b Within-region inequality (% of overall) is the ratio of “within-region inequality” to “overall inter-county inequality”, and between-region inequality (% of overall) is the ratio of “between-region inequality” to “overall inter-county inequality”