Assessing Asset Indices

Filmer, Deon; Scott, Kinnon

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“…Socioeconomic status was determined by a list of household assets and amenities. [16] Sexual behaviour measures (age at first foreplay, oral, anal and/or vaginal intercourse, age and gender of partner, coerced or voluntary) were collected from age 11 years at six subsequent time points (11 -12 years, 13 years, 14 years, 15 years, 16 years and 17 -18 years). Self-reported responses were submitted through the method of secret ballot.…”

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Early sexual debut: Voluntary or coerced? Evidence from longitudinal data in South Africa – the Birth to Twenty Plus study

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Background. Early sexual debut, voluntary or coerced, increases risks to sexual and reproductive health. Sexual coercion is increasingly receiving attention as an important public health issue owing to its association with adverse health and social outcomes. Objective. To describe voluntary and coerced experience at sexual debut. Methods. A longitudinal perspective among 2 216 adolescents (1 149 females, 1 067 males) in a birth cohort study in South Africa, analysing data collected on six occasions between 11 and 18 years. Results. The median age of sexual debut was 16 years for females and 15 for males. Reported coerced sexual debut included children <11 years of age. Males reported earlier sexual debut, with both voluntary and coerced sexual experience, than females (p<0.0001). Sexual coercion at early sexual debut among both male and female adolescents occurred mostly through sexual intercourse with older adolescents and partners of the same age. Conclusion. The identified time periods and age groups need to be targeted for interventions to delay sexual debut and prevent sexual coercion among young people. More research is needed to understand underlying predisposing risk factors for sexual coercion at sexual debut, both early and not early.

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Early sexual debut: Voluntary or coerced? Evidence from longitudinal data in South Africa – the Birth to Twenty Plus study

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“…12 We are grateful to an anonymous referee for this observation. 13 Ferreira and Gignoux [11] offer a formal proof of this intuitive lower-bound result. provides detailed information on economic outcomes, but not on some of the most important candidate circumstance variables, such as the education of the parents of present-day workers.…”

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“…θ r is therefore a lower-bound estimate of the actual share of ex-ante inequality of opportunity in total inequality. 13 In the remainder of this paper, we apply this measure of ex-ante inequality of opportunity to a situation where information on the advantage variable y and the circumstance vector C are not directly available in the same household survey, so that either y must be constructed as a composite aggregate of various underlying indicators (our "wealth index" method), or information on y from an ancillary survey must be used to impute it into the main survey containing information on C (our "imputed consumption" method). We compare the two methods in seeking to quantify inequality of opportunity in Turkey.…”

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“…In some cases, such as the floor material in the dwelling, or access to sanitation or 14 Region was classified into three broad regions: West, Center, and East; the type of area of birth place into rural or urban according to whether the respondent considered it as a village or sub-district or not; parental education into four categories: no education or unknown level, primary, secondary, and higher education; mother tongue into Turkish or another language; and number of siblings into: less than 3, 4 to 5, 6 to 8, 9 or more. 15 See Filmer and Scott [13] for a recent (and sanguine) assessment of the robustness of household rankings based on asset indices originating from DHS information, when compared, inter alia, to detailed consumption expenditure data. water sources, there is arguably an ordinal nature to the alternative categories.…”

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Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: the case of Turkey

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The measurement of inequality of opportunity has hitherto not been attempted in a number of countries because of data limitations. This paper proposes two alternative approaches to circumventing the missing data problems in countries where a demographic and health survey (DHS) and an ancillary household expenditure survey are available. One method relies only on the DHS, and constructs a wealth index as a measure of economic advantage. The alternative method imputes consumption from the ancillary survey into the DHS. In both cases, we compute a lower bound estimator of the share of (ex-ante) inequality of opportunity in total inequality. Parametric and non-parametric estimates are calculated for each method, and the parametric approach is shown to yield preferable lower-bound measures. In an application to the sample of ever-married women aged 30-49 in Turkey, inequality of opportunity accounts for at least 26% (31%) of overall inequality in imputed consumption (the wealth index).

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“…Key contributions to the topic are Pritchett (1999, 2001), Rutstein and Johnson (2004), and Filmer and Scott (2008).…”

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Is Growth in Asia and the Pacific Inclusive?

Sugden

2012

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Assessing Asset Indices

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Early sexual debut: Voluntary or coerced? Evidence from longitudinal data in South Africa – the Birth to Twenty Plus study

Early sexual debut: Voluntary or coerced? Evidence from longitudinal data in South Africa – the Birth to Twenty Plus study

Measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data: the case of Turkey

Is Growth in Asia and the Pacific Inclusive?

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