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Descriptive Data Analysis of Inequality of Economic Opportunity using the Queensland Family Cohort Pilot Study
Author(s) -
Gan Brenda,
Jayawardana Danusha,
Clifton Vicki
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8462.12438
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , socioeconomic status , inequality , cohort , health care , data collection , descriptive statistics , medicine , economic growth , economics , environmental health , sociology , population , social science , mathematical analysis , mathematics , statistics
The Queensland Family Cohort Pilot Study follows 450 women over the course of their pregnancy and after giving birth, collecting a wealth of information on socioeconomic characteristics, health, healthcare use and biological samples. The focus of this paper is to demonstrate how these data may be used to measure inequality of opportunity, between advantaged and disadvantaged populations, for mothers, partners and babies, in terms of their mental health and use of scarce health care resources. This paper provides the foundation for future analyses when a wider Queensland study is proposed to collect data from 12,500 families.