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Table 5 Three risk measures on the income-health relationship from using the empirical distribution of 1000 predicted health quantiles

From: A distributional regression approach to income-related inequality of health in Australia

 

$20,000

$80,000

Absolute difference

Relative difference

a) Smokers

Pavg

0.492 [0.454; 0.526]

0.391 [0.362; 0.428]

0.101 [0.065; 0.128]

20.53% [13.76%; 25.15%]

Pfair

0.179 [0.151; 0.204]

0.131 [0.114; 0.154]

0.048 [0.027; 0.067]

26.82% [16.49%; 35.06%]

Ppoor

0.041 [0.026; 0.054]

0.025 [0.018; 0.036]

0.016 [0.003; 0.025]

39.02% [10.00%; 52.00%]

b) Non-smokers

Pavg

0.409 [0.382; 0.445]

0.327 [0.298; 0.354]

0.082 [0.062; 0.115]

20.05% [15.42%; 27.07%]

Pfair

0.143 [0.128; 0.163]

0.114 [0.097; 0.126]

0.029 [0.019; 0.050]

20.28% [14.18%; 32.24%]

Ppoor

0.028 [0.019; 0.040]

0.021 [0.015; 0.027]

0.007 [0.000; 0.017]

25.00% [ 0.00%; 46.43%]

  1. Note. 95th percentile bootstrap confidence intervals denoted in brackets