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Table 4 Decomposition to determine factors lie behind socioeconomic inequality in ArNCD cohort study

From: The socio-economic inequality in body mass index: a PERSIAN cohort-based cross-sectional study on 20,000 Iranian adults

Variable

Concentration index

Elasticity

% Contribution

Summed%

Age (< 35 ref.)

 40–44

−0.0163

0.0025

−0.0734

0.8

 45–49

0.0446

0.0059

0.4837

 50–54

0.0445

0.0055

0.4487

 55–59

−0.0040

0.0028

−0.0209

 60–64

−0.0310

0.0011

−0.0644

  > 65

−0.1160

−0.0001

0.0128

Sex (male ref.)

 female

−0.0657

−0.0469

5.6411

5.6

Marital Status (Single ref.)

 Married

0.0083

0.0752

1.1471

0.9

 divorced

−0.0325

0.0050

−0.2963

Education (Illiterate ref.)

 Primary

−0.0926

−0.0025

0.4196

−4.1

 Tips

0.0237

−0.0022

−0.0938

 Diploma

0.1061

−0.0063

−1.2148

 Academic Degree

0.2652

−0.0066

−3.2191

Chronic Disease (have not ref.)

 Have Diabetes

0.0237

0.0013

0.0577

2.4

 Have Hypertension

0.1163

0.0106

2.2635

 Have Cardiac Ischemic

0.0398

0.0007

0.0478

Smoking (No ref.)

 Yes

−0.1310

−0.0026

0.6258

0.6

Alcohol (No ref.)

 Yes

0.0601

0.0009

0.1036

0.1

Wealth index (Poorest ref.)

 Poor

−0.4263

−0.0070

5.4501

75.8

 middle

0.0397

0.0241

1.7468

 Rich

0.1753

0.0358

11.4820

 Richest

0.5020

0.0623

57.1676

Explained

82.1

Residuals

17.9

Total

100