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Type

Journal Article - Health & place

Title

Self-rated health: Small area large area comparisons amongst older adults at the state, district and sub-district level in India

Author(s)

Siddhivinayak Hirve

Penelope Vounatsou

Sanjay Juvekar

Yulia Blomstedt

Stig Wall

Somnath Chatterji

Nawi Ng

Volume

Publication (Day/Month/Year)

2014

Page numbers

31-38

URL

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2013.12.002

Abstract

We compared prevalence estimates of self-rated health (SRH) derived indirectly using four different small area estimation methods for the Vadu (small) area from the national Study on Global AGEing (SAGE) survey with estimates derived directly from the Vadu SAGE survey.

The indirect synthetic estimate for Vadu was 24% whereas the model based estimates were 45.6% and 45.7% with smaller prediction errors and comparable to the direct survey estimate of 50%.

The model based techniques were better suited to estimate the prevalence of SRH than the indirect synthetic method. We conclude that a simplified mixed effects regression model can produce valid small area estimates of SRH.

Siddhivinayak Hirve, Penelope Vounatsou , Sanjay Juvekar , Yulia Blomstedt , Stig Wall , Somnath Chatterji , and Nawi Ng. "Self-rated health: Small area large area comparisons amongst older adults at the state, district and sub-district level in India." Health & place (2014).